abrdn, Baillie Gifford pass ESG test; Schroders fails
Edinburgh investment giants abrdn and Baillie Gifford are among 125 firms that have been endorsed under the UK’s tougher stewardship and best practice code to…
Edinburgh investment giants abrdn and Baillie Gifford are among 125 firms that have been endorsed under the UK’s tougher stewardship and best practice code to…
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’s £3.3 billion Monks Investment Trust plc said on Friday the fund’s net asset value (NAV) total return was 55.5% for the year to April 30, 2021, compared…
Edinburgh-based investment giant Baillie Gifford announced it will re-open its £6.2 billion Diversified Growth Fund to new investors and lower the fund’s annual management fees, with effect…
Boutique fund manager Crux Asset Management Ltd has announced the appointment of Baillie Gifford Asia investment specialist Ewan Markson-Brown to lead a Crux expansion into…
The £370 million Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust is to ask its shareholders at its August 5 AGM for the authority to invest up to 10%…
The £1 billion Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust plc announced the appointment of leading Scottish tech and media entrepreneur Chris van der Kuyl and Google…
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…
Latest data from fund research giant Morningstar shows that smaller companies funds maintained their 2021 winning streak in April, with European funds “leading the charge.”…
Edinburgh asset management giant Baillie Gifford has invested $100 million in Blockchain.com — the largest single investment yet made in the crypto wallet provider that…
Edinburgh-based investment giant Baillie Gifford has toppled London-based Schroders from the number one position in the prestigious annual rankings of UK fund management brands by Broadridge. Schroders…
Baillie Gifford’s Schiehallion Fund is targeting a $500 million-plus raise through a C-share issue. The fund is dedicated to making investments in “later stage private businesses…
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,…
The market value of Dublin and San Francisco-headquartered digital payments giant Stripe has soared to $95 billion with a round of funding that took it…
Baillie Gifford has claimed the top spot in FundCalibre’s seventh annual Fund Management Equity Index, pushing three-times winner Morgan Stanley into second place. Each year,…
By Mark McSherry The £808 million Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust plc said on Monday its share price and net asset value (NAV) returned 50.8% and…
Edinburgh’s office market proved resilient in 2020 with take-up nearing 500,000 sq. ft. and demand remaining strong, according to analysis from Knight Frank. The commercial…
Edinburgh-based investment giant Baillie Gifford has appointed Josie Bentley as a co-manager of its top-performing £2.3 billion Baillie Gifford European Fund, joining existing managers Stephen…
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…
Funds managed by Edinburgh-based investment giant Baillie Gifford have dominated the list of top 10 performing portfolios for 2020, according to data from FE Analytics. Four…
The £200 million Keystone Investment Trust plc said on Monday it has decided to appoint Edinburgh-based investment giant Baillie Gifford to manage the trust using…
Edinburgh-based investment giant Baillie Gifford continued its record-breaking year in the third quarter thanks to the strong performance of its funds. BlackRock and Baillie Gifford…
The £1 billion Baillie Gifford Japan Trust plc said on Wednesday its net asset value total return rose 6.8% compared to the 0.1% fall in…
Edinburgh-based investment giant Baillie Gifford has opened an office in Shanghai and has registered as a Private Securities Fund Manager (PFM) in China. These two…
Edinburgh-based investment giant Baillie Gifford on Thursday officially added its new £236 million China Growth Trust plc to the £44.6 billion its funds have invested in…
Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust plc said on Thursday its share price and net asset value returned 46.5% and 44.2% respectively for the financial year…
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…
Baillie Gifford said on Thursday its £2.5 billion Monks Investment Trust plc raised £100 million of long-term debt, a move that takes the closed-end fund’s…
Edinburgh-based investment giant Baillie Gifford said it has completed its first ever “value assessment” of its UK authorised funds. “Our conclusion is that value has…
Edinburgh-based investment giant Baillie Gifford is to move its headquarters from Calton Hill at the east end of Princes Street to a new £350 million…
Edinburgh-based investment giant Baillie Gifford is to take over the management of the £215 million Witan Pacific Investment Trust plc and change the fund’s investment…
Edinburgh-based fund management giant Baillie Gifford has confirmed that it will not after all expand by moving staff into a new landmark building in Edinburgh….
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 £800 million Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust plc said on Monday its net asset value per share increased 16.4% and its share price rose 21.7%…
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…
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…
Edinburgh-based fund management giant Baillie Gifford said on Friday its joint senior partner Charles Plowden will retire on April 30, 2021, after almost four decades…
Edinburgh-based fund management giant Baillie Gifford is planning to launch a fund using artificial intelligence (AI). Baillie Gifford joint senior partner Charles Plowden told an…
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction will hold its first ever US event at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 22. American-Ukrainian author Serhii…
The Women’s Tour of Scotland announced that Edinburgh investment giant Baillie Gifford will be its new lead partner as the list of teams that will…
An investment of around £200 million by Edinburgh-based fund management giant Baillie Gifford in online ticketing firm Trainline has paid off immediately. Baillie Gifford committed…
The chair of Baillie Gifford’s flagship £8 billion fund, the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc, has warned shareholders they should not rely too much on…
Edinburgh-based investment giant Baillie Gifford has opened its first client office in mainland Europe — in Frankfurt — as part of plans for continued growth…
Edinburgh-based investment giant Baillie Gifford has introduced a new parental leave policy which offers up to 52 weeks leave to any employee becoming a parent,…
Edinburgh-based fund management giant Baillie Gifford on Thursday announced the appointment of two new partners, effective May 1, 2019, and the retirement of three partners….
Edinburgh-based fund management giant Baillie Gifford is set to open an office in Shanghai in the coming months as it moves to beef up its…
By Mark McSherry Edinburgh-based fund management giant Baillie Gifford, one of Tesla’s biggest shareholders, has claimed that Tesla could be worth more than the $420…
Edinburgh-based global fund management giant Baillie Gifford, which manages £193 billion of assets, has confirmed reports that it is to set up a new EU subsidiary company…
Edinburgh-based fund management giant Baillie Gifford is set to take all 60,000 sq ft of a new office space development at 20 West Register Street…
The board of the £259 million investment trust Schroder UK Growth Fund plc has terminated Schroder Unit Trusts Limited as the fund’s manager and given the mandate…
Edinburgh-based fund management giant Baillie Gifford said it successfully raised gross proceeds of £173 million for the launch of its Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust….
Edinburgh-based fund management giant Baillie Gifford announced its intention to raise £250 million through the launch of a new investment trust company, the Baillie Gifford…
The fund managers who run Edinburgh-based Baillie Gifford’s flagship £6 billion fund, the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc, are making new investments in cutting-edge healthcare companies that…
Baillie Gifford’s flagship £5 billion fund, the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc, said Fiona McBain would succeed John Scott as chairman of the FTSE 100…
Baillie Gifford’s flagship £5 billion closed-end fund company, the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc, will enter the FTSE100 index for the first time in its…
Edinburgh-based fund manager Baillie Gifford & Co. announced it would appoint three new partners on May 1, 2017, taking its total number of partners up to 43. Baillie Gifford employs…
Baillie Gifford’s flagship £4.7 billion equity closed-end fund — the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust — said both its net asset value (NAV) and share price rose 25% on a…
Edinburgh-based investment firm Baillie Gifford has added to its Japanese fund range with the launch of the Baillie Gifford Japanese Income Growth Fund. Baillie Gifford had…
The board of Edinburgh-based fund manager Baillie Gifford’s flagship fund — the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust company — plans to limit to 25% the amount of the…
Pensions & Investment Research Consultants Ltd (PIRC), the UK-based corporate governance and proxy voting consultancy, has announced big changes to its leadership team. The changes will…
By Mark McSherry Baillie Gifford’s £1 billion investment trust Scottish American Investment Company (SAINTS) said its net asset value (NAV) total return was 5.5% for the…
Baillie Gifford’s $1.2 billion Schiehallion Fund — which invests in private businesses that may go public — has reported that its ordinary share net asset value…
The £550 million Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon investment trust said the company’s net asset value per share declined 14.9% and its share price fell 20.5%…
Baillie Gifford’s £1 billion investment trust Scottish American Investment Company (SAINTS) reported that its share price total return was 8.2% and net asset value total return…
By Mark McSherry Baillie Gifford’s £2.4 billion Monks Investment Trust plc said it has continued with “a run of poor relative returns that began two years…
The managers of the £380 million Baillie Gifford European Growth Trust plc admitted their investment style “is very much out of favour” and they have “undoubtedly…
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…
The £609 million Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust plc said its share price and net asset value (NAV) returned -13.8% and -2.7% respectively in the year…