When Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in 2018, London-based hedge fund manager Dominic Armstrong bet investors would be turned off and the kingdom's debt would take a beating.
His fund Horatius Capital made a bet worth millions of dollars through credit default swaps — or insurance against sovereign default — that Saudi bonds would be hit.
But investors largely stuck with Saudi debt.
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