In this recent Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust webinar, deputy manager Lawrence Burns discussed growth stocks, volatility, and why the progress of Moore’s Law remains a positive for innovative companies.

Publication date: 10 Feb 2022 

Published by: Baillie Gifford

Lawrence Burns (pictured left) sat down for a webinar with Citywire to discuss growth stocks, volatility, and why the progress of Moore’s Law remains a positive for innovative companies.

The video can also be accessed HERE

The above video gives you some very good insight into why access to entrepreneurs and visionary founders and academics matter.

All investment strategies have the potential for profit and loss. Past performance is not a guide to future returns. A Key Information Document for the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC is available by contacting us or by contacting Baillie Gifford directly. This communication was produced and approved in January 2022 by Baillie Gifford and has not been updated subsequently. It represents views held at the time of presentation and may not reflect current thinking.

The Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (SMT:L) is one of the oldest, and largest listed investment trusts in the UK and at Ethical Offshore Investments, we believe that it offers significant upside potential for the longer term investor…… though investors do need to be prepared for volatility. In the video, Laurence does mention on a few occasions that draw downs / pullbacks of over 30% has hit their top holdings on many occasions and how it is important to have that ‘hold’ discipline to take advantage of these superior, high growth potential companies over the longer term.

Current top 10 holdings within Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust are Moderna, ASML, Illumina, Tesla, Tencent, NVIDIA, Meituan, Delivery Hero, Nio and Kerring. 

If you are a long term investors and is interested in investing in the types of innovative companies listed above, I would suggest listening to the above webinar to get a better understanding on why the Trust is investing so much time and effort into such companies. 

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