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The sub-Fund aims to outperform (after deduction of costs) the MSCI Japan Small Cap Index, as stated in Sterling, by at least 1.5% per annum over rolling five-year periods. The sub-Fund will invest at least 90% in shares of smaller Japanese companies, being those which are listed, incorporated, domiciled or conducting a significant portion of their business in Japan. The sub-Fund will be actively managed and will generally invest in smaller companies in any sector, being a company that has either a market capitalisation or turnover of less than ¥150 billion at the time of initial purchase.
Name | Title | Since | Until |
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Praveen Kumar | Portfolio Manager | 2023 | Now |
Biography | Praveen Kumar joined Baillie Gifford in 2008 and is a portfolio manager in the Japanese Equities Team. He is the lead manager for the Manager’s Japanese Smaller Companies Strategy and a member of the Manager’s International Smaller Companies Portfolio Construction Group. Mr. Kumar graduated BEng in Computer Science from Bangalore University in 2001 and gained an MBA from the University of Cambridge in 2008. | ||
Paul Schwerda | - | 2023 | 2024 |
Biography | Paul is an Investment Manager in the Japanese Equities Team. He joined Baillie Gifford in 2018. Reflecting his long-standing fascination with Japan and his experience of living there, Paul is particularly interested in identifying those companies that will shape Japan’s economic future. Furthermore, he is intrigued by questions of impact and ESG and keen to explore them in a Japanese context. He gained an AM in South Asian Studies from Harvard University in 2015 and an MA in Indian Studies from the University of Tübingen in 2011. He graduated PhD in South Asian Studies from Harvard University in 2017. | ||
Felicia Hjertman | Investment Manager | 2017 | 2018 |
Biography | Felicia graduated BA in International Business with Russian from European Business School, London in 2011. Felicia joined Baillie Gifford in the same year and is an Investment Manager in the Japanese Equity Team. | ||
John MacDougall | Investment Manager | 2007 | 2015 |
Biography | John is an Investment Manager and member of the Long Term Global Growth (LTGG) and China A-Share teams. He has been a Partner in the firm since 2016. He joined Baillie Gifford in 2000 as a part of the North American department and then went on to work in the Japan and Global Discovery teams before joining his current teams. John graduated MA in Ancient & Modern History from the University of Oxford in 2000. | ||
Alistair Way | Head of Asian and GEM Equities | 1983 | 2007 |
Biography | Mr. Way, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Emerging Market Equities, leading a team of 9 investors. Analyst of Emerging Market Internet and Technology sectors. Alistair was formerly Head of Asia and Global Emerging Market Equities at Standard Life Investments (SLI), and a portfolio manager on a number of funds. He joined SLI from Baillie Gifford in 2007 and has 25 years’ experience in the investment industry. Alistair has a 1st class economics degree from Cambridge University. | ||
Mark Urquhart | Head | 2000 | 2003 |
Biography | Mark joined Baillie Gifford in 1996 and is the head of the Long Term Global Growth Team, a strategy which he co-founded in 2003. Mark previously worked as an Investment Analyst and Manager in the US, UK and Japanese Equities teams. He became a Partner in 2004. Mark graduated BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford in 1992 and spent a year at Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar in 1993 before completing a PhD in Politics with a thesis on Nationalism in the EU at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. |
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