Baillie Gifford adds Kirsty Gibson to US Growth trust management team

Replaces Helen Xiong

Kirsty Gibson will replace Helen Xiong as co-manager of the top-performing £808m Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust, from 1 March.

Gibson, an investment manager in Baillie Gifford's US equities team and co-manager of the £7bn Baillie Gifford American fund, will join Gary Robinson on the mandate. Xiong will step off the US Growth trust, having joined Baillie Gifford's Global Alpha team last year. Baillie Gifford American's Bujnowski to become partner as Plowden retires Director of marketing & distribution James Budden said that as a key member of the firm's US equities team, Gibson's appointment to the US Growth trust was "a natural expansion of her current role on our US strategy". "The trust has done well ...