Baillie Gifford dumps losing stocks after results announcement for US Growth Trust
Edinburgh-based Baillie Gifford released annual results for its US Growth Trust, which has £785 million AUM, showing a -45% return over the past financial year.
In the announcement the Scottish fund shared its decision to sell its holdings in companies “which had veered off track from their forward-looking hypotheses”. The companies included Zillow, Vroom, Glaukos and Lyft.
It also added a number of holdings to its portfolio:
- Three listed companies Rivian Automotive, HashiCorp and Duolingo
- Seven private companies: BillionToOne, Blockstream, Databricks, Discord, Faire Wholesale, Snyk and Solugen
The fund held twenty-four private company investments at the end of May, collectively making up 36.4% of total assets.
In its results, the firm said: “Turnover remains low, consistent with our five year plus time horizon.
“We are currently seeing a significant dislocation between share prices and fundamentals but the prospects for the innovators that are driving change remain bright.”