1. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust

    Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust

  2. Overview

    Launched in 1909, Scottish Mortgage is considered to be Baillie Gifford's flagship investment trust. These days the trust is Global rather than Scottish and has nothing whatsoever to do with mortgages.

    We look to add value over five year time frames, preferably much longer. We don't see that we can add much more than anyone else in the short term.

    Performance & Portfolio

    Periodic Performance

    All figures to 29/02/2024

    1 Year

    3 Years

    5 Years

    10 Years

    Share Price 13.0%-28.5%66.1%291.9%
    NAV 11.0%-23.2%96.5%359.5%
    Benchmark* 18.3%36.5%77.3%211.6%

    Performance figures appear in GBP. The value of your investment may go down as well as up, and you may not get back the amount you invested.

    NAV is calculated with borrowings deducted at fair value for 1, 3 and 5 years and par value for 10 years.

    *FTSE All World Index (GBP) TR.

    Performance source: Morningstar and relevant underlying index provider, total return.

    Please bear in mind that past performance is not a guide to future performance.


    Discrete Performance

    Annual Performance to 31 December each year

    31/12/2018
    31/12/2019

    31/12/2019
    31/12/2020

    31/12/2020
    31/12/2021

    31/12/2021
    31/12/2022

    31/12/2022
    31/12/2023

    Share Price 24.8%110.5%10.5%-45.7%12.5%
    NAV 26.8%106.5%13.2%-39.0%10.1%
    Benchmark* 22.3%13.0%20.0%-7.3%15.7%

    Performance figures appear in GBP. The value of your investment may go down as well as up, and you may not get back the amount you invested.

    NAV is calculated with borrowings deducted at fair value for 1, 3 and 5 years and par value for 10 years.

    *FTSE All World Index (GBP) TR.

    Performance source: Morningstar and relevant underlying index provider, total return.

    Please bear in mind that past performance is not a guide to future performance.

    Performance - 29/02/2024

    Performance figures appear in GBP. The value of your investment may go down as well as up, and you may not get back the amount you invested.
    Benchmark data is limited to a 5 year period from the current date.
    The graph has been rebased to 100.
    Please bear in mind that past performance is not a guide to future performance.

    Holdings - 29/02/2024

    Fund %
    1 ASML 8.2%
    2 NVIDIA 7.9%
    3 Amazon.com 5.3%
    4 MercadoLibre 5.0%
    5 Moderna 4.7%
    6 Space Exploration Technologies 4.0%
    7 PDD Holdings 3.8%
    8 Tesla Inc 3.5%
    9 Ferrari 3.2%
    10 Northvolt 2.7%
    Total 48.3%
    Active Share - 29/02/2024

    Relative to FTSE All-World Index. Source: Baillie Gifford & Co, FTSE.

    Meet the Managers

    Tom Slater - Manager

    Tom joined Baillie Gifford in 2000 and became a Partner of the firm in 2012. After serving as Deputy Manager for five years, Tom was appointed Joint Manager of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust in 2015. During his time at Baillie Gifford he has worked in the Developed Asia, UK Equity and Long Term Global Growth teams. Tom’s investment interest is focused on high growth companies both in listed equity markets and as an investor in private companies. He graduated BSc in Computer Science with Mathematics from the University of Edinburgh in 2000.

    Lawrence Burns - Deputy Manager

    Lawrence joined Baillie Gifford in 2009, spent time working in both the Emerging Markets and UK Equity teams, and became a partner in 2020. Lawrence was appointed Deputy Manager of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust in 2021. He has been a member of the International Growth Portfolio Construction Group since October 2012 and in 2020 he became a manager of Vanguard’s International Growth Fund. Lawrence is also a co-manager of the International Concentrated Growth and Global Outliers strategies. His investment focus is on transformative growth companies. He graduated BA in Geography from the University of Cambridge in 2009.

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    Important Information

    Baillie Gifford Overseas Limited (ARBN 118 567 178) is registered as a foreign company under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) and holds Foreign Australian Financial Services Licence No 528911. The information in this area is provided to you on the basis that you are a “wholesale client” within the meaning of section 761G of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (“Corporations Act”). Please advise Baillie Gifford Overseas Limited immediately if you are not a wholesale client. In no circumstances should the information in this area be made available to “retail clients” as defined by the Corporations Act.

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