Baillie Gifford partner James Anderson to leave firm next year

Will step down on 30 April 2022

James Anderson, co-manager of the £16.5bn Scottish Mortgage investment trust and partner at Baillie Gifford, will be stepping back from the firm in April next year.

Anderson, who joined Baillie Gifford in 1983 and became partner four years later, will hand over management duties of Scottish Mortgage to Tom Slater, who has been co-manager on the vehicle since 2015. Slater will be joined by Lawrence Burns, an investment manager on the firm's international growth research team, as deputy manager with immediate effect. Burns, who joined Baillie Gifford in 2009, is also co-manager of Baillie Gifford's International Concentrated Growth Strategy. Andrew Telfer, joint senior partner of Baillie Gifford, said Anderson has been "central to the strategic ...