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- Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC is a publicly traded investment trust listed on the London Stock Exchange that invests globally in a diversified portfolio of public and private growth companies across sectors including technology, healthcare, consumer discretionary, communication services, and industrials; it focuses on exceptional businesses with strong management, competitive advantages, and long-term potential in areas such as digitalisation, AI enablers, future advertising, and healthcare innovation, with up to 30% allocation to unquoted private companies like SpaceX and ByteDance alongside public holdings such as Tesla, Nvidia, ASML, Amazon, TSMC, and BYD. Managed by Baillie Gifford & Co., founded in 1909 and headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, the trust maximises total returns for shareholders through a low-cost structure, selective gearing, and benchmarked against the FTSE All-World Index, serving institutional and retail investors worldwide with geographic exposure primarily to North America (over 50%), Asia, Europe, and emerging markets. Recent developments include substantial share buyback programs totalling over £2.6 billion since March 2024 to manage the share price discount to net asset value, with £1.71 billion repurchased in the year to March 2025 representing 13.3% of shares in issue and ongoing purchases such as 500,000 shares on 25 November 2025; portfolio changes over the past year featured new investments in TSMC, BYD, and Hermès, complete sales of Tencent, HDFC Bank, HelloFresh, and Zoom, private company deployments of £132 million including listings of Tempus AI, Bolt Projects Holdings, and Horizon alongside the takeover of Udacity, and strong half-year net asset value growth of 22.9% to 30 September 2025 outperforming the benchmark.