Baillie Gifford has been in business for 96 years and is one of the leading privately owned investment management firms in the U.K. It is also one of the fastest growing, both in Canada and in the UK.

Our structure combines the best of broad experience and international comparison. Whilst our seventy investors travel around the world to unearth prospects, our single investment location in Edinburgh offers the opportunity to compare and contrast opportunities with colleagues. We manage a variety of international portfolios for Canadian clients and have recently launched a concentrated global capability managed independently of index benchmarks.

Baillie Gifford has been one of the success stories of the investment management industry in the last 20 years. In a period where expansion through acquisition has been an industry trend we have managed to expand purely organically, growing funds under management and advice from C$7.4 billion in 1990 to over C$60 billion today. It is a growth that has been built largely on the simple foundations of good performance, good service and low staff turnover.

In a period when the ownership of financial firms and their management have become more distanced from each other Baillie Gifford has prospered through its partnership structure and independent status. These have enabled the firm to adapt quickly to changing circumstances and to be at the leading edge of modern financial management systems and thinking. More than 13% of our employees now work in the systems area and more than 75% of our employees are aged under 40. For the future we aim to offer our clients incisive investment, efficient administration and outstanding client service within the framework of a well-managed and forward looking business.