By Elliot Gulliver-Needham US Solar Fund, a UK-listed investment trust that invests in solar power in the US, has barely survived a vote to kill the trust. In the trust’s annual general meeting yesterday, 35.4 per cent of investors voted for it to wrap up, while 35 per cent voted against the re-election of the trust’s chair, Gillian Nott. Investment firm Sarasin and Partners owns around nine per cent of US Solar Fund’s share capital and had publicly stated they would vote against the trust continuing and the chair’s re-election. Sarasin said that they are, “dissatisfied by the quality of leade…