Baillie Gifford US Growth: Investor patience ‘will wear thin’ over underperformance Banking The £643m Baillie Gifford US Growth trust is at risk of investor patience wearing thin over its failure to keep up with the strength of US markets, analysts have warned. In the trust’s annual result, it revealed that its underlying assets grew by only 16.2 per cent throughout the year, compared to a 24.8 per [...]
How Bill Ackman’s $25bn Pershing Square IPO collapsed Investing Bill Ackman’s plans for the largest ever trust IPO in US history, a $25bn float of closed-end fund Pershing Square US, are no more. The billionaire hedge fund manager admitted defeat late last night, withdrawing his proposal that he hoped would be a competitor to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. While Ackman said Pershing had received [...]