Saba Capital and the Baillie Gifford-run Edinburgh Worldwide (EWI) are at loggerheads again, a year after the activist first tried to oust its directors and replace them with its preferred alternatives. This time, a lot of focus has been on EWI's stake in SpaceX, where it recently sold down a large chunk of its holding a few months before a large increase in the company's valuation. Here, we look at the history of SpaceX in the various Baillie Gifford trusts that have invested in it. At $800bn, SpaceX is the world's most highly valued private company, and it is rumoured to be targeting an IPO ...
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Baillie Gifford US Growth (ticker: USA) was launched at 100p in March 2018, and it employs Baillie Gifford's distinctive growth style with the ability to hold up to 50% of its portfolio in unquoted companies. The shares rose about 50% over the first two years but then surged from 150p to nearly 400p by early 2021. The shares trod water during the rest of 2021 but then sank as low as 140p and a discount of up to 25% during 2023 as interest rates moved higher and inflation took hold. Saba Capital disclosed a 5% stake in August 2023, and in December 2024, USA was one of seven trusts where it requ...
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UPDATE: A revised profile for this trust was published in March 2025.
Baillie Gifford US Growth launched in 2018, making it the first new Baillie Gifford trust to list since Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon in 1985. Modelled on the popular open-ended Baillie Gifford American fund, US Growth also invests in unlisted companies and it has been one of the best-performing investment trusts on the London market since its IPO. It's consistently traded at a small premium but in common with most other Baillie Gifford trusts, it's been a pretty volatile ride.
2018 was the last year that we saw a significan...
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There are a lot of valuable things to read this week - it goes like that sometimes. Other weeks nothing much of interest seems to pass my inbox. The week itself has been dominated by the inauguration of Joe Biden as President of the United States, which fortunately went off peacefully. The markets are expecting a big stimulus package to back up the already exceptional amounts of monetary stimulus and help reignite economic growth after the vaccines start to kick in and bring an end to the current wave of stringent lockdowns we are seeing across many countries, although there seems to be a clea...
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