Overview
Baillie Gifford China Growth Trust aims to produce long term capital growth by investing predominantly in shares of, or depositary receipts representing the shares of, Chinese companies.
Performance & Portfolio
Periodic Performance
All figures to 31/03/2024 1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Share Price -26.1% -56.6% -35.7% 7.9% NAV -27.1% -50.1% -36.5% 0.8% Index* -18.2% -35.1% -23.4% 29.9% 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.
*Changed from MSCI AC Asia ex Pacific index to MSCI China All Shares Index on 16/09/20. Data chain-linked from this date to form a single comparative index
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 March each year 31/03/2019
31/03/202031/03/2020
31/03/202131/03/2021
31/03/202231/03/2022
31/03/202331/03/2023
31/03/2024Share Price -3.2% 53.0% -32.7% -12.8% -26.1% NAV -10.5% 42.3% -28.2% -4.7% -27.1% Index* -7.4% 27.3% -20.5% -0.2% -18.2% 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.
*Changed from MSCI AC Asia ex Pacific index to MSCI China All Shares Index on 16/09/20. Data chain-linked from this date to form a single comparative index.
Performance source: Morningstar and relevant underlying index provider, total return.
Please bear in mind that past performance is not a guide to future performance.Holdings - 31/03/2024
Fund % 1 Tencent 8.7% 2 ByteDance 8.2% 3 Kweichow Moutai 5.7% 4 Alibaba 5.2% 5 Meituan 4.3% 6 China Merchants Bank 3.2% 7 Ping An Insurance 2.7% 8 CATL 2.7% 9 Zhejiang Sanhua Intelligent Controls 2.6% 10 NetEase 2.5% Total 45.7% Insights
View all Insights.Meet the Managers
Sophie Earnshaw
Sophie is an investment manager in the China Equities Team. She is a decision maker on our All China Strategy, which she has managed since 2014, and on our A share Strategy since its inception in 2019. She also provides China insight to the Emerging Markets Leading Companies and International All Cap portfolio construction groups. She is a CFA Charterholder and graduated MA in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh in 2008 and MPhil in Eighteenth Century and Romantic Literature from the University of Cambridge in 2009.
Linda Lin
Linda is the head of the China Equities Team, and a decision maker on our All China and China A share strategies. She is also a member of the Long Term Global Growth Team. Linda joined Baillie Gifford in September 2014 and worked in Edinburgh until relocating to Shanghai in 2019 as Head of the Investment Team. She became a partner of the firm in May 2022 and is now based in Edinburgh. Prior to joining Baillie Gifford, Linda spent four years as a global equity analyst with Aubrey Capital and two years in real estate investment in China. She graduated BComm in Accounting and Finance from the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 2007 and MSc in Finance and Investment from the University of Edinburgh in 2011. Linda is a native Mandarin speaker.
Documents
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Annual Reports
Bulletins and Factsheets
Corporate Governance
Interim Reports
Investment Intelligence
Investor Disclosure Document
Other Fund Literature
Portfolio Voting Disclosure
RNS Announcements
Sustainability-related Disclosures
PRIIPs Key Information Document
Disclaimers
MSCI Disclaimer
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