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Read the colourful stories behind the Baillie Gifford-managed trusts.

Salesforce: AI agents at work
Agentforce's promise of fast, low-cost, 24/7 customer service.
September 2025Article5 minutes
Lights, camera, AI
From storyboard to final cut, Runway is changing how films get made.
September 2025Article5 minutes
BYD’s right to win
The electric carmaker’s drive to follow success in China with global expansion.
September 2025Article5 minutes
Unknown quantities
Prof Diane Coyle explains why you can’t measure progress with yesterday’s tools.
September 2025Article5 minutes
Virtual visionaries
Japan’s Cover Corp is defining the space where anime meets reality.
September 2025Article4 minutes
The power of purpose
Why firms with a passion to improve customers’ lives do better.
September 2025Article5 minutes
Bringing it home
Meet the companies winning from deglobalisation.
September 2025Article4 minutes
Shanghai, Shenzen, Beijing
On the road with the board and managers of China Growth Trust
September 2025Article4 minutes
New kids on the blockchain
Why Scottish Mortgage is investing in the 'picks and shovels' of the crypto boom.
September 2025Article4 minutes
The age of resilience
Scottish Mortgage’s Tom Slater on the lesson from turbulent times.
September 2025Article5 minutes
Nubank: Latin America’s digital disrupter
Charting the app-based lenders’ long-term growth.
March 2025Article6 mins
Why Question 7 won the Baillie Gifford Prize
Prize judge Alison Flood describes how Richard Flanagan's book captivated the panel.
March 2025Article7 minutes
50th edition: tales from Trust
A look back on what’s changed since we launched in 2004.
March 2025Article4 minutes
Healthy returns: Japan’s assault on old-age disease
Japanese medical firms are making advances that could help fight cancer and Alzheimer’s.
March 2025Article5 minutes
Watch this space: Tim Marshall on the future of ‘astropolitics’
Author Tim Marshall explains how space is set to become the new arena for rival powers.
March 2025Article7 minutes
SAINTS: adversity is opportunity
Finding diverse companies that share a great growth culture.
March 2025Article5 minutes
How DSV became global freight’s top dog
Conquering trade logistics one merger at a time.
March 2025Article5 minutes
Trip notes: Kazakhstan
Sizing up super-app Kaspi.kz in Almaty.
March 2025Article6 minutes
DoorDash: delivering the goods
How DoorDash’s ambitions extend far beyond restaurant deliveries.
March 2025Article7 minutes
Joby Aviation readies for take-off
How a flying taxi firm could launch a transport revolution.
March 2025Article6 minutes
Beyond NVIDIA: investing in semiconductors
The world runs on computer chips, and our appetite for them is only increasing.
September 2024Article6 minutes
At the spearhead of surgery
Find out how Creo Medical’s ingenious tiny tools probe deep into the body to remove cancer with minimal harm to patients.
September 2024Article7 minutes
Trip notes: Seoul and Mumbai
The retailer with faster delivery times than Amazon and the bank capitalising on India’s rising middle class.
September 2024Article4 minutes
The evolutionary economist
Eric Beinhocker argues that the economy isn’t a machine to keep in balance but an evolving system that adapts to human needs.
September 2024Article7 minutes
PsiQuantum: the leap to quantum computing
Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionise drug discovery, renewable energy, transportation and more.
September 2024Article3 minutes
Beyond Silicon Valley
The US’s most exciting and transformative companies are increasingly spread across the nation in thriving centres of innovation.
September 2024Article7 minutes
Ahead of the game
Kelly Clancy explains the many ways play has shaped who you are – for good and for ill.
September 2024Article4 minutes
SWCC Showa: rewiring Japan
Discover the company revitalising Japan’s outdated power network and aiding its shift to renewables.
September 2024Article7 minutes
The US building bonanza
The United States’ infrastructure upgrade plan vastly exceeds its spending on rebuilding post-war Europe.
March 2024Article4 minutes
Moncler: from the mountains to the streets
How the outdoor fashion brand mixes elegance and adventure.
March 2024Article
The American Dream made real
Why the US is a fantastic place to invest in growth.
February 2024Article4 minutes
Japan’s online banking revolution
Japan’s love of traditional cash transactions is giving way to new digital financial practices.
March 2024Article4 minutes
Novo Nordisk: tipping the scales
Charting how a century of innovation led to a revolutionary weight-loss treatment.
March 2024Article4 minutes
The money migrators
How cross-border payments company Remitly takes the tension out of cash transfers.
March 2024Article4 minutes
Vietnam: Asia’s rising star
Visiting Saigon, Roderick Snell explores what went right for the pro-business communist country.
March 2024Article5 minutes
Starlink’s Space-based broadband
SpaceX’s satellite service delivers unprecedented internet access worldwide, even in remote regions.
March 2024Article5 minutes
The fresh face of Japanese finance
New online services are transforming Japanese banking habits.
March 2024Article4 minutes
Lessons from the laws
Investment managers share some of the laws that guide their decisions.
March 2024Article4 minutes
A warning on warming
John Vaillant’s prize-winning Fire Weather spells out the lessons of a Canadian inferno.
March 2024Article6 minutes
The founder factor
Why nearly nine out of 10 Scottish Mortgage companies are led by their creators.
March 2024Article4 minutes
AI: intelligence everywhere
Why AI could be the printing press of intelligence.
March 2024Article5 minutes
Private companies and the Power Law
Author Sebastian Mallaby on the attraction of investing in game-changing firms at an early stage.
March 2024Article
The elements behind everything
Author Ed Conway shares insights on six commodities crucial to our progress.
December 2023Article
Exposing AI’s costs
Prof Kate Crawford on Artificial intelligence’s environmental and social impacts.
October 2023Article
The future of cybersecurity
Veteran data security expert Mikko Hyppönen on cyberwarfare and AI’s challenge.
March 2023Article
Joiners’ mate
How Howdens’ kitchens won the building trade’s trust.
September 2023Article
How Microsoft got its mojo back
By shifting the focus from Windows and embracing AI, the firm has revitalised its fortunes.
September 2023Article
NVIDIA: Accelerating AI
How Jensen Huang overcame adversity to play a pivotal role in accelerating progress.
September 2023Article
Harnessing the power within
Could we use our bodies’ natural electricity to treat illness?
September 2023Article
Japan’s secret superstars
The new generation of companies that’s quietly captured key technology niches.
September 2023Article
Gene silencing
How Alnylam suppresses a cause of Alzheimer’s and other diseases.
September 2023Article
Innovation powers progress
Charting how technological progress and prosperity march together.
September 2023Article
Surfing to success
Why the waves hold the key to the pursuit of long-term growth.
September 2023Article
Innovation nation
A nation that once adapted others’ technologies is increasingly leading in innovative products and services.
September 2023Article
Nuclear fusion: SHINE lights the way
The cancer-fighting firm that aims to lead a clean energy revolution.
October 2023Article
Moderna’s new challenge
The mRNA technology behind the Covid vaccine is being directed against other diseases.
April 2023Article
Super Mario’s World
Nintendo’s iconic characters profitably mix familiarity with new forms of gameplay.
April 2023Article
A tight ship: Lessons from Admiral
How Henry Engelhardt’s entrepreneurial flair helped create the car insurance giant.
April 2023Article
Shakespeare: Elizabethan entrepreneur
The award-winning author who laid bare the life of the Bard.
September 2023Article
In search of John Donne
Poet, preacher, politician, pirate – Katherine Rundell celebrates the many lives of John Donne.
April 2023Article
Making healthcare insurance manageable
How Elevance Health uses its scale to smooth a path through the US health system’s maze.
April 2023Article
Trip Notes: Brazil
Ed Whitten travels to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo to meet companies seeking social impact.
April 2023Article
Ocado’s robot revolution
The UK firm is partnering with leading grocers to deploy its automated warehouses worldwide.
March 2023Article
AI prophet
Renowned investor Kai-Fu Lee revisits his prophetic book, five years on.
April 2023Article
Europe’s new growth stars
Three companies helping turn the continent from an innovation backwater to a hotspot.
April 2023Article
Why Indonesia matters
The island nation’s natural wealth makes it crucial to a low-carbon future.
April 2023Article
Kering’s creative freedom
How the luxury group enables its designers to spark love-it-or-hate-it reactions.
September 2022Article
Monks: diversity beats adversity
A varied portfolio helps the Trust manage volatility and focus on the long term.
September 2022Article
Tel Aviv Trip Notes
From biofood to cybersecurity, innovative startups thrive in Israel.
September 2022Article
Snow Peak’s outdoor heiress
Lisa Yamai’s bold challenge to Japan's old guard.
September 2022Article
A changing China
Upheaval means opportunity for the nation’s ‘little giants’.
September 2022Article
Champions of Europe
Game-changing companies capable of growing to global scale.

Driven to Succeed
What businesses need to know about motivating their workers.
September 2022Article
UK Growth Trust: home focus
The case for investing in British firms innovating in healthcare, fintech and AI.
September 2022Article
The snowball effect
The unsung heroes reinvesting profits to produce long-term outperformance.
September 2022Article
The storyteller
Tony Fadell, inventor of the iPhone, on creating a guide for other ‘builders’.
September 2022Article
Closing the gap
Mary Ann Sieghart on ways to stop women being taken less seriously than men.
November 2022Article
Making sense of the metaverse
Matthew Ball on the next-generation internet and its foundational firms.
February 2023Article

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