Scottish Mortgage bounces back with 32.5% return
Baillie Gifford’s flagship investment trust, the £14 billion Scottish Mortgage fund, bounced back in the year to March 31, 2024, delivering a share price return…
Baillie Gifford’s flagship investment trust, the £14 billion Scottish Mortgage fund, bounced back in the year to March 31, 2024, delivering a share price return…
US hedge fund and activist investor Elliott Investment Management has acquired a 5.037% exposure stake in Baillie Gifford’s £14 billion flagship fund, the Scottish Mortgage…
Baillie Gifford’s flagship investment trust, the £14 billion Scottish Mortgage fund, announced it will make at least £1 billion available to buy back its shares over…
The board of the £13 billion Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust announced the appointment of Stephanie Leung as independent non-executive director of the closed end fund…
By Mark McSherry Baillie Gifford’s flagship investment trust, the £13 billion Scottish Mortgage fund, has explained to its shareholders the extent of its investments in…
The £13.3 billion Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, Baillie Gifford’s flagship fund, has reiterated its commitment to investing in “exceptional growth companies” despite announcing share price and net…
The giant Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust announced on Wednesday the appointment of Sharon Flood and Vikram Kumaraswamy as independent non-executive directors of the company, with…
Amar Bhidé, the director who said he was removed by a vote of the board at the £13.4 billion Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, has revealed he…
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, Baillie Gifford’s flagship fund, on Tuesday announced big changes to its board following claims last week by one departing director, Amar…
By Mark McSherry — The half-year report from the £14 billion Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc is another sobering read from the giant closed-end fund which…
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, Baillie Gifford’s flagship fund, on Friday reported its net asset value per share (NAV) fell almost 18%, with borrowings at book value, for…
Baillie Gifford’s £15 billion flagship fund Scottish Mortgage has revealed it carried out 351 revaluations on the private companies it holds in the first half…
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust once again retained its title as the most-popular investment trust among Interactive Investor customers in May, despite the fund’s high-flying share price…
By Mark McSherry Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has admitted it made a “mistake” in reducing its holdings of western online platform companies rather than their…
Baillie Gifford’s Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has lost its position as the largest UK investment trust by stock market value amid the brutal sell-off in…
Abrdn’s investment platform Interactive Investor announced that the number of customers investing through its “regular investing” service rose by 19% in the first quarter of the…
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc, Baillie Gifford’s flagship fund, announced on Thursday it has raised a further $400 million of long-term borrowings. In a new private…
Baillie Gifford’s high-flying flagship fund, the £21 billion Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc, said on Monday it has increased its investment in healthcare and biology companies…
Baillie Gifford’s high-flying flagship fund, the £20 billion Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc, announced the appointment of Prudential plc chief financial officer Mark FitzPatrick as a non-executive director….
Baillie Gifford’s high-flying flagship fund, the £20 billion Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc, announced it has raised a further £200 million by issuing two long-term, fixed…
Baillie Gifford’s high-flying flagship fund, Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc, said on Thursday it produced its strongest ever return in the year to March 31,…
The share price of Baillie Gifford’s high-flying flagship fund, Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc, fell another 6% on Thursday to around £10.88 as renewed worries about inflation and…
The UK’s Association of Investment Companies (AIC) is taking on the mutual fund analyst giant Morningstar following its downgrade of Baillie Gifford’s Scottish Mortgage Investment…
By Mark McSherry The stock price of the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc rose another 5.5% to £9.59 on Monday after shares of its top…
Baillie Gifford’s flagship fund, the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc, has soared above a record £10 billion stock market valuation this week — with its…
Baillie Gifford’s flagship £8.9 billion fund, the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc, said on Thursday it raised a further £188 million in debt. Scottish Mortgage…
By Mark McSherry Baillie Gifford’s flagship £8.4 billion fund, the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc, on Friday defended its fondness for investing in unquoted companies…
Baillie Gifford’s flagship £7 billion fund, the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc, said it has raised further borrowings of £170 million “to invest in additional future growth…
Baillie Gifford’s flagship £5 billion fund, the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc — which recently entered the FTSE 100 index for the first time in its…
By Mark McSherry Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust’s latest results show a big increase in its stakes in companies not listed on the stock market and reveal…
Scottish Building Society said it has posted record results for the financial year ended January 31, 2022. The mutual has seen its balance sheet grow…
Scotland’s ageing population has driven up the number of Scottish households who own their home mortgage-free, according to new statistics from the 2022 Census. In…
Savings balances grew 17% in the last 12 months to a record £490 million at Scottish Building Society, the world’s oldest remaining mutual. The organisation’s…
The average rent of newly listed homes across Scotland has increased sharply in the past year, according to research by property firm Rettie. “As of…
By Mark McSherry Edinburgh-based investment giant Baillie Gifford revealed on Monday that its assets under management and advice have fallen again — this time to…
A director of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, Baillie Gifford’s flagship fund, has told Scottish Financial Review he was “removed” from the board of the £13.4…
A strong final quarter of 2020 saw shares in listed Scottish companies outperform the wider FTSE and AIM All Share indices as they soared 29.61%…
By Mark McSherry Baillie Gifford’s high-flying Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc has published results for the six months to September 30, 2020, showing the £15 billion…
Scottish Building Society announced that Mark Thomson is stepping down from his role as chief executive after almost seven years. “During his time with Scottish Building…
Scottish Building Society said it has strengthened its senior management team with the appointment of Aileen Brown in the newly-created role of finance director. Brown joins…
Scottish Building Society announced financial results for the year ended January 31, 2016, showing its savings balances increased 3.1% to £342.1 million and that total assets…
Global stock markets fell sharply on Monday — with the Japanese index suffering its worst day in 37 years — as investors around the world…
Former Baillie Gifford and Scottish Mortgage fund manager James Anderson has joined an investment management firm backed by the Agnelli Italian industrial dynasty. Anderson has joined…
Ahead of the Six Nations rugby starting this weekend, new data from social investing network eToro shows that the strongest XV Scotland-headquartered stocks have easily…
Edinburgh-based investment giant Baillie Gifford revealed on Tuesday that its assets under management and advice have fallen more than 30% to £239 billion since the…
Two managers of Baillie Gifford’s flagship fund, the £17 billion Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc, have said the Edinburgh investment firm is in the business…
By Mark McSherry As fund manager James Anderson leaves Edinburgh-based investment giant Baillie Gifford after almost 40 years, he has shared more of his thoughts…
Edinburgh-based global investment management partnership Baillie Gifford has announced it will appoint eight new partners from May 1, 2022, and that four partners — James Anderson,…
A number of high flying funds and investment trusts managed by Edinburgh investment giant Baillie Gifford came back down to earth with a bang in…
By Mark McSherry — As prominent international fund manager James Anderson prepares to leave Edinburgh-based investment giant Baillie Gifford after almost 40 years, he has written…
Shares of Perth-based renewable energy and power networks giant SSE touched a record high over £17 a share on Tuesday after the company raised its annual earnings…
ISA investors have kept faith in Baillie Gifford and its flagship fund Scottish Mortgage despite the turbulent start to 2022 for stock markets and the…
Baillie Gifford legendary investor James Anderson has said fund management “has inherently become inward looking” too often obsessed with share buybacks and dividends. Anderson said…
The £800 million Abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust plc and Baillie Gifford’s £1 billion Scottish American Investment Company plc were among the best performing investment trusts of…
Edinburgh-based investment giant Baillie Gifford has dominated AJ Bell’s “Most Popular Funds And Shares Of 2021” report. Baillie Gifford American, Baillie Gifford Positive Change, Baillie…
By Mark McSherry ESG investment frameworks “are profoundly damaging to the prospect of changing the corporate sector” according to James Anderson, the outgoing joint manager of…
By Mark McSherry US activist hedge fund Elliott Advisors is pushing for a breakup of Perth-based energy and networks giant SSE after building up a…
Edinburgh-based asset management giant Baillie Gifford has won the top prize at the FTAdviser Investment 100 Club Awards for a fifth year running. The judging…
Baillie Gifford fund manager James Anderson said the FTSE 100 “is really a 19th century and not even a 20th century index” and that the…
Baillie Gifford star fund manager James Anderson has joined the board of Heart of Midlothian Football Club. Last June, Anderson donated an initial £3.1 million to…
Baillie Gifford investment manager James Anderson has delivered a fiesty farewell message to shareholders of the firm’s high-flying flagship fund, the £18 billion Scottish Mortgage…
By Mark McSherry Edinburgh-based investment giant Baillie Gifford said on Friday that star fund manager James Anderson will leave the firm on April 30, 2022,…
Fund research giant Morningstar has announced that Edinburgh-based Baillie Gifford’s £17.5 billion flagship fund Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust was its best-performing trust of 2020, having achieved…
Scottish companies listed on the London Stock Exchange outperformed their indices in the third quarter of 2020 according to analysis from Brewin Dolphin, boosted by…
Morningstar’s latest fund flow numbers show Edinburgh investment giant Baillie Gifford was the most popular asset management firm in July, attracting £991 million of new…
Morningstar analysts have downgraded Baillie Gifford’s high-flying Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc — which has returned 58% so far this year — from a gold…
Scottish companies listed on the FTSE index averaged a share price fall of 30.72% between January and June 2020, compared to losses of 18.61% and…
Baillie Gifford fund manager James Anderson has donated an initial £3.1 million to the SPFL Trust charity to help Scottish football and its communities recover…
The SPFL said on Monday it held a “positive initial discussion” with Baillie Gifford fund manager James Anderson about his “extremely generous” offer in a…
Baillie Gifford’s James Anderson, co-manager of the £9 billion Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, took a swipe at American investment guru Warren Buffett’s “value” investment style…