Investing in the future since 1908
An active global equity growth manager with an expressly long-term approach.
Why invest with Baillie Gifford?
Patient, long-term investing
Willingness to maintain a long-term view in an increasingly impatient industry.
Partnership model
Having stability to support the firm's strong investment philosophy and culture.
High conviction growth investor
Targets global companies with the potential to deliver exceptional growth.
What does Baillie Gifford do?
Baillie Gifford is an independent investment manager founded in Edinburgh. Over its 117-year history, much has changed, but the firm's focus on seeking superior, long-term investment returns for its clients has remained steadfast.
The firm aims to identify game-changing companies and other assets that can sustain growth and remain resilient in a changing world for decades to come.
“We believe that the rewards to the champions of change can far outweigh the losses of incumbents: the best feature of equities is the unlimited upside."
Mark Urquhart
Partner, Long Term Global Growth Investment Manager
Investment Philosophy
Baillie Gifford team are, in their words, ‘curious about the world’. They seek to understand new technologies and the nature of disruption, an approach that sees them spending more time talking to academics and scientists than to brokers and analysts.
Baillie Gifford describes what they do as being more than just active investing: they prefer to call it ‘actual investing’. This philosophy is based on three key principles:
Long term in investment decision making
Unlike market participants that exhibit ‘short termism’ when investing, Baillie Gifford has the patience and belief in the stocks it selects to remain invested for the long term. This allows them to exploit global market inefficiencies and give companies the opportunity to grow.
Global and purely stock-driven approach
Baillie Gifford works with a bottom up stock approach and is benchmark agnostic. The team invests with conviction and maintains concentrated portfolios of companies with the potential to deliver strong growth over time.
Baillie Gifford are growth investors
Share prices ultimately reflect strong company fundamentals. That’s why Baillie Gifford seeks out and invests in companies that can sustain above average growth in profit and cash flow over the long term.
Information and tools
Baillie Gifford Long Term Global Growth
Invest in a portfolio of exceptional companies from around the globe that have the potential to achieve transformational growth over the long term.
Speak to an expert about investing with Baillie Gifford
Resources and FAQs
Key insights for Long Term Global Growth:
You can see the Baillie Gifford Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) here.
You can also find the Target Market Determination (TMD) for its Long Term Global Growth Fund here.
You can find out where to invest with our platform availability matrix.
Ballie Gifford is recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader 2026 by the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA). This acknowledges our leadership in responsible investment commitment, ESG integration, stewardship and transparency.
We're here to help
Get in touch
For adviser services contact us 8:30am - 6pm (Sydney time) Monday to Friday.
FirstTech: 9am - 5:30pm Monday to Friday.
Adviser use only
Information on this webpage is provided by Avanteos Investments Limited ABN 20 096 259 979, AFSL 245531 and Colonial First State Investments Limited ABN 98 002 348 352, AFSL 232468. It may include general advice but does not consider anyone’s individual objectives, financial situation, needs or tax circumstances. You can find the target market determinations (TMD) for our financial products at www.cfs.com.au/tmd, which include a description of who a financial product might suit. You should read the relevant Product Disclosure Statements (PDSs), Investor Directed Portfolio Service Guides (IDPS Guides) and Financial Services Guides (FSGs) before making any recommendations to a client. The PDSs, IDPS Guides and FSGs can be obtained from www.cfs.com.au or by calling us on 13 18 36. Past performance or awards are no indication of future performance.