The future.
Be there first.
Invest in progress.

At Scottish Mortgage, our purpose is simple. We aim to identify, own and support the world’s most exceptional growth companies. In doing so, we believe we’ll fulfil our duty of maximising returns for our shareholders over the long term. Explore this website to discover what we mean by investing in progress, how we find and support the companies shaping the future, and how you can be a part of it.

A good place to start is by watching the film below, in which manager Tom Slater and deputy manager Lawrence Burns explain more.

An Introduction: The Museum of Progress

Today’s technologies and products are tomorrow’s museum pieces. Why invest in the status quo when you can invest in the future and help shape it? Tom Slater and Lawrence Burns explain more.

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Insights

Digital Rendering of Climework's direct air capture plant, Mammoth.
Article

Perspectives on progress #6

From an IPO to $10bn of gross merchandise value a month, the latest news on portfolio holdings.

Researcher at work in DNA genetic laboratory.
Article

Innovation breeds growth

Tom Slater explains how companies create value and power progress by combining earlier innovations.

Colours of sunset reflected on a close up view of rippled water.
Film

What is private company investing?

Discover what private company investing is, and why our decades of institutional knowledge of exceptional growth companies gives us an advantage.

Skyscapers showing above the clouds with a low sun in a clear sky.
Article

China: setting the pace in key industries

Lawrence Burns reports back following his recent trip to China.

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Share price

Source: Morningstar. Share prices are shown at closing mid price. NAVs are estimated.
*Ongoing charges as at 31 March 2023. Calculated in accordance with AIC recommendations. Details of these costs can be found in the Key Information Document.

Key information

AGM & Registrar

AGM

Held on 27 June 2023 at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 11 Queen St, Edinburgh EH2 1JQ.

Registrar

Computershare Investor Services PLC, The Pavilions, Bridgwater Road, Bristol, BS99 6ZY.

AIC Investment Sector

Global

Launch Date

1909

Assets

Past performance is not a guide to future performance.

**Relative to FTSE All-World Index. Source: Baillie Gifford & Co, FTSE.

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