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Jared Anderson is an investment manager in the Japanese Equities Team. He is co-manager of Japan All Cap Strategy and Japanese Smaller Companies Strategy, and deputy manager of the Shin Nippon Investment Trust. Jared joined Baillie Gifford in 2016. Prior to joining the firm he spent two years as an Assistant Economist at the Scottish Government. Jared graduated MA (Hons) in Economics from the University of Edinburgh in 2012.
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