Baillie Gifford Usa

the firm is wholly owned by its 46 partners, all of whom work within the firm. this means we have no external shareholders who may have time frames that differ from us or our clients, allowing us to focus solely on our long-term vision to deliver the best results for our clients. we believe that investment management means working with potentially great companies in the pursuit of returns through the real deployment of capital and fundamental wealth creation over long time periods. we have little interest in the short-term gyrations of stock markets and we don’t think that risk can be quantitatively defined as share price volatility or index-relative weights. the bulk of stock market returns in the long term are created by a tiny number of companies, so we focus our efforts on understanding which companies those might be rather than covering every available opportunity. to do this, we much prefer to spend time with academics, scientists, entrepreneurs, practitioners and industry expe