Baillie Gifford

Professional Adviser is proud to announce the shortlists for the adviser categories for the Professional Adviser Awards 2012, which take place next month.

This has been a year when some of the most popular emerging market managers paid the price for the breakneck growth of recent years, with investors fleeing to safe havens as equities tanked amid the eurozone debt crisis.

The winners of the Investment Week Investment Trust Awards 2011 were announced at a glittering ceremony in London last night.

A leading economist has hit out at the practice of risk profiling carried out by many financial advisers, describing it as "rubbish".

Baillie Gifford's James Budden on why platforms should welcome investment trusts.

Baillie Gifford's James Budden says the RDR is a levelling tool the investment trust sector should welcome.

James Budden of Baillie Gifford says the RDR may see closed-ended funds in guided architecture and on fund recommendation lists alongside open-ended funds.

Baillie Gifford High Yield Bond fund manager Ben Thompson plans to leave the group next month to work outside the financial services industry.

Investment trusts can give clients good value for money without impacting on potential investment returns.

Peter Hollis, head of the European equity team and a partner at Baillie Gifford, is leaving the company in April 2011.