M&G Real Estate and its property development partner Qmile Group announced they have pre-let all 390,000 sq ft of Grade A office accommodation at the £350…

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…

M&G Real Estate and property developer partner Qmile Group said on Thursday they have agreed pre-lets for 55% of Haymarket One at the new £350…

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…

Fundraising by existing investment trust companies in 2021 has already exceeded the previous 2019 record for secondary fundraising — with £8.71 billion raised so far…

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…

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….

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 investment management giant abrdn has the highest percentage of women as fund managers amongst major global asset management companies with 100 managers or more….

Shepherd and Wedderburn, the largest Scottish-headquartered UK law firm, has reported 4.1% turnover growth to £59.3 million in the year to April 30, 2021, with…

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 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 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…

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 Scottish Government has published plans to increase the value of private investment flowing into Scotland and make the country a “global centre of ethical finance.”…

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 £3 billion Dundee investment trust company Alliance Trust plc, which uses external fund managers Willis Towers Watson (WTW), announced board changes as it revealed…

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%…

Office investment in Edinburgh totalled £210 million between Q1 and Q3 of 2020, slightly ahead of the £205 million long term average for this period,…

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 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange outperformed their indices in the third quarter of 2020 according to analysis from Brewin Dolphin, boosted by…

Edinburgh has been ranked fourth in Europe in the latest Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI 28) launched on Friday by influential London think tank Z/Yen…

Morningstar said on Monday that investors withdrew another £2.26 billion out of UK equity funds in August as uncertainty over Brexit and a second wave…

By Mark McSherry Shares of Tesla fell 21% on Tuesday, wiping about $82 billion from its stock market valuation, after the electric vehicle maker’s surprise…

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…

Aberdeen-based Wood plc, the global engineering and consulting company, announced on Friday a pledge “to set a science-based target” to reduce its” scope 1 and…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Standard Life Aberdeen Plc — one of Scotland’s largest employers — has told most of its UK staff to work from home…

Three-quarters of investment trusts outperform their sister open-end fund over both one year and 10 years — but the trusts are more volatile than their…

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…

V&A Dundee, Scotland’s first design museum, announced it will open to the public on Saturday, September 15, 2018. It will be the only V&A museum…

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…

Baillie Gifford’s £1.3 billion Monks Investment Trust said the consequences of the Brexit vote had been very good news for the closed-end fund in the short term…

Edinburgh-based online travel search company Skyscanner is exploring “strategic options” including a possible sale of the firm, an initial public offering (IPO) or more fundraising, according to…

Edinburgh-based travel search firm Skyscanner has announced five new partners who will invest £128 million ($192 million) between them for an undisclosed share in the company….

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…