Baillie Gifford

Founded in 1908, Baillie Gifford is an independent investment-management partnership headquartered in Edinburgh. It manages and advises portfolios for pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, charities, financial intermediaries and individual investors, with clients across global markets.

The firm offers specialist equity, fixed-income and multi-asset portfolios, alongside private-growth investing. Its strongest identity is in long-term, bottom-up growth investing: teams conduct deep company research, build concentrated portfolios and typically hold investments for years rather than trading around short-term market movements.

Baillie Gifford is particularly associated with identifying transformative companies early and backing businesses capable of compounding substantially over a five- to ten-year horizon. Its investment staff operate as generalists with specialist interests, making research judgement, curiosity and comfort with uncertainty central to the work.