March 2024
Features
Schroder UK Mid Cap Fund plc: UK equities – what’s the catalyst?
Mid caps particularly well poised for a UK renaissance...
15 Mar
15 Mar
Features
Climeworks: digging deeper for climate solutions
Scottish Mortgage’s Lawrence Burns speaks to Christoph Gebald, CEO of Climeworks, about his company’s plans to scale up its direct air capture technology and why he thinks the carbon removal industry could be as big by 2050 as oil and gas is today...
15 Mar
15 Mar
Features
Keystone Positive Change: the outlook for 2024 and beyond
In this webinar recording, Lee Qian, co-manager of the Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust, provides an update on investment performance and discusses the outlook for 2024 and beyond. Lee also explains the positive impact that companies within the portfolio are making...
08 Mar
08 Mar
Features
Behind the Trust: Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust
By formalising its investment policy to focus on sustainability and capitalise on mispricing, Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust is seeking to be the first mover within its sector to proactively respond to the UK’s Net Zero Carbon objectives to the potential benefit of both shareholder returns and the planet...
08 Mar
08 Mar
Features
Flash update: Hipgnosis Songs
Update following most recent announcement...
07 Mar
07 Mar
Features
Behind the trust: International Biotechnology Trust plc
Biotech companies stand to inject high returns and positive social impact into an investor’s portfolio and International Biotechnology Trust has an impressive track record of doing this with lower volatility than the index (NASDAQ Biotechnology Index), while paying a healthy dividend yield...
01 Mar
01 Mar
Features
Why the AI paradigm shift matters to growth investors
Recent advances in artificial intelligence could herald a period of radical change. Baillie Gifford investment manager Tom Slater considers how this affects growth investing and which companies might benefit...
01 Mar
01 Mar
February 2024
Features
Using unorthodox signals to spot the next big thing
How can investors spot large growth opportunities at the stage when others dismiss them as fads? Baillie Gifford investment manager Dave Bujnowski reveals how anthropology could help...
23 Feb
23 Feb
Features
Stock spotlight: Dexcom
Sands Capital’s Sunil Thakor looks at medical device company Dexcom – leader in the field of continuous glucose monitoring – and examines what makes it a high-quality growth business...
23 Feb
23 Feb
Features
Stock spotlight: Airbus
In our new series of stock spotlight videos, Veritas’ Andy Headly focuses on Airbus and talks about the qualities that make it so attractive compared to its closest competitor...
16 Feb
16 Feb
Features
Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust: manager insights
Baillie Gifford’s Douglas Brodie, lead manager of the Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust, provides an update on recent performance, observations on the market environment and why the team is optimistic about future returns...
16 Feb
16 Feb
January 2024
Features
Baillie Gifford European Growth Trust: manager insights
Investment manager Chris Davies discusses performance, portfolio positioning and why the Trust continues to seek fast-growing companies that prioritise long-term growth over near-term profits. He also explains why the allocation to private companies is an important point of differentiation for the Trust...
26 Jan
26 Jan
Features
Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust: manager insights
Baillie Gifford’s Lee Qian provides an update on the Trust’s performance and holdings, how companies in the portfolio are contributing to a more sustainable future, and explains why an era of constrained financing could benefit strong growth companies...
26 Jan
26 Jan
Features
Moderna: from Covid vaccines to cancer cures
Five years from now, Moderna could be synonymous with personalised cancer vaccines, not Covid-19. Chief executive Stéphane Bancel talks with Scottish Mortgage manager Tom Slater about what can be achieved through programmable drug development...
19 Jan
19 Jan
Features
Baillie Gifford Japan Trust: Manager Insights
Investment manager Matthew Brett discusses performance and why developments such as rising entrepreneurialism and progress in AI make for compelling growth opportunities in Japan...
12 Jan
12 Jan
Features
Monks Investment Trust: a three-dimensional approach to growth
The nature of growth is changing. Baillie Gifford’s Spencer Adair describes how shifts in the investment landscape are affecting the portfolio and explains how his team aims to benefit from holding three different company types...
12 Jan
12 Jan
Features
Schroders Capital Global Innovation Trust: The journey so far
The recent name change of the trust provides a valuable opportunity to look back on the important steps forward that we have taken and reflect on the prospects that await...
05 Jan
05 Jan
Features
Delivering a steady income in an uncertain world
Bond markets have been anything but boring over the last couple of years! Rhys Davies explains what’s been happening in the high yield bond market, the impact on his portfolios, and how he manages the Invesco Bond Income Plus Limited, employing some of the specific features of the investment trust structure...
05 Jan
05 Jan
December 2023
Features
Discovering the unsung superstars of Japanese technology
Fast growing companies comprising Japan’s ‘third wave’ of industrial innovators have cornered key manufacturing markets. Praveen Kumar, manager of Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon, tells Joji Sakurai how they did it...
22 Dec
22 Dec
Features
Beyond the rally: finding lasting growth in Japan
Japan has had its fair share of false-dawn recoveries over the decades, so what’s different this time? Baillie Gifford’s Donald Farquharson explains...
22 Dec
22 Dec
Features
HelloFresh: changing how people eat forever
Scottish Mortgage’s Lawrence Burns speaks to Dominik Richter, co-founder and chief executive at HelloFresh, about streamlining the journey from farm to front-door, reducing food waste and providing hassle-free meal options for consumers...
22 Dec
22 Dec
Features
Growth companies shaping our tomorrow
Citywire’s Richard Lander chats with Baillie Gifford’s Douglas Brodie, manager of the Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust, about his approach, businesses in the portfolio, opportunities and emerging themes such as artificial intelligence...
22 Dec
22 Dec
Features
NVIDIA: Accelerating AI
NVIDIA’s co-founder Jensen Huang is Silicon Valley’s longest-serving chief executive. But his greatest impact may still be ahead of him, as Scottish Mortgage’s Claire Shaw explains
15 Dec
15 Dec
Features
Pacific Horizon Investment Trust: Manager Insights
Baillie Gifford investment manager Roderick Snell discusses why, despite recent performance struggles due to inflation, interest rates and geopolitical tensions, he believes the long-term outlook for investing in Asia remains promising...
15 Dec
15 Dec
Features
How Alnylam’s gene-silencing technology nips disease in the bud
A proven success against rare diseases, Alnylam’s technology is now poised to take on the big global killers, as Douglas Brodie, manager of Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust, tells Linda Geddes...
08 Dec
08 Dec
Features
Innovation Nation
China’s economic resurgence was based on a talent for adapting others’ technologies. Now the country is a seedbed of original ideas. Sophie Earnshaw, joint manager of Baillie Gifford China Growth Trust, highlights some of the breakthroughs...
08 Dec
08 Dec
November 2023
Features
Growth waves: supporting companies, spotting opportunities
How can investors contribute to the success of the companies they back? The Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust’s Kirsty Gibson finds answers in the ocean...
17 Nov
17 Nov
Features
Scottish Mortgage investor webinar: your questions answered
What two questions should an investor ask themselves if a company’s share price goes up? In this recent webinar recording, join Scottish Mortgage’s decision-makers as they answer this and the questions put to them by its shareholders...
17 Nov
17 Nov
Features
Finding value in Japan
SJG is taking advantage of attractive valuations and corporate reforms…
15 Nov
15 Nov
Features
Asia’s growth opportunities
World-leading companies and domestic growth stories can be found throughout the region…
15 Nov
15 Nov