Baillie Gifford establishes China equities team amid management shake-up

Bullish on Chinese government PE support

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Baillie Gifford has created a dedicated China equities investment team, shaking up its Asia portfolio management teams in the process.

The new equities team will be led by Linda Lin, who returns from Shanghai to Edinburgh to oversee the ten strong team. Sophie Earnshaw and John MacDougall, also based in Edinburgh, will work with Shanghai office members Rio Tu, Louise Lin, Tony Wang, Freddy Zhu, Clark Ren, Doris Gu and ESG analyst Lin Qin. Baillie Gifford to shutter four bond funds and scrap international fixed income business Additionally, investment specialists Ben Buckler and Qian Zhang will join the new unit from the existing emerging markets clients team. "Having a single dedicated team will help align moti...

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