Baillie Gifford

Finance provider Social Investment Scotland (SIS) has launched a programme of support for Scotland’s social enterprise community with Baillie Gifford. The scheme aims to help organisations recover from the impact of COVID-19 and develop strategies for future growth. The Ambitions for Recovery

The Scottish Professional Football League Trust (SPFL Trust) has received the single biggest personal donation in Scottish football history as James Anderson, a fund manager and partner with Baillie Gifford, has gifted the charity £3,125,000 inclusive of gift aid.

Baillie Gifford has confirmed that it has reassessed its plans to move staff into its new building in Edinburgh. The fund manager previously signed a deal to pre-let 60,000 sq ft building at 20 West Register Street in St Andrew Square.

After almost four decades at the firm, Baillie Gifford’s joint senior partner Charles Plowden will retire on 30 April 2021. Following his retirement, Malcolm MacColl will become joint senior partner.

Baillie Gifford has become the headline sponsor of Edinburgh Science Learning, the education arm of educational charity Edinburgh Science who also produces the world’s first and Europe’s biggest science festival.

Protest group Extinction Rebellion has targetted Baillie Gifford's Edinburgh office by barricading the entrance to the building.

Baillie Gifford's Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust has appointed former PwC partner Caroline Roxburgh and McKinsey alumnus Jonathan Simpson-Dent as non-executive directors. The two will join the board on the 1st of February this year.

Edinburgh Partners has been removed from a £335 million investment fund for European Investment Trust PLC and replaced by Baillie Gifford. The European Investment Trust PLC (EIT) said the company had underperformed the benchmark for Edinburgh Partners' preferred 'value' investment style - buyi

Professor Shannon Vallor will join the University of Edinburgh as the first Baillie Gifford chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI).

Private rocket company SpaceX has raised over $1 billion since the beginning of the year with the help of a $71.4 million capital injection from Scottish investment manager Baillie Gifford.

Venerable Edinburgh wealth manager Baillie Gifford has extended its Far East offering with the launch of a Japanese equity income fund. Managed by Matthew Brett, Baillie Gifford Japanese Income will seek out quality Japanese businesses that promise dividend increases alongside long-term share price

The star-performing Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust suffered a slight decline in net asset value of 0.1 per cent after a tough year which saw a 26 per cent drop in earnings due to a challenging global picture. The drop has forced the £3.9 billion trust to dip into capital reserves to cover divid