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Kirsty Gibson
Baillie Gifford & Co Ltd, Baillie Gifford Worldwide Fund
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Manager profile
Kirsty is an investment manager in the US Equity Growth Team. She joined Baillie Gifford in 2012 and became a partner in 2025. Kirsty has been involved in running the North American portfolio of the Managed and Global Core (UK) Strategies since 2021. Prior to joining the US Equity Growth Team, Kirsty also spent several years in the small and large-cap global equities departments. She graduated MA (Hons) in Economics in 2011 and MSc in Carbon Management in 2012, both from the University of Edinburgh.
Total return for Kirsty Gibson
Manager career performance
Rolling Alpha Quartile: Discrete three year periods
Rolling Alpha Quartile shows a manager's alpha score in quartile terms, plotting his or her risk adjusted performance against all other managers in the UT & OEICs universe. The best managers are those who are consistently ranked in the first or second quartile.
 
Quartile 1
Quartile 2
Quartile 3
Quartile 4
 
 
 
 
 
68-104m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
80-116m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
92-128m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
36-72m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
48-84m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Discrete calendar year performance : Kirsty Gibson

Manager career performance
Discrete performance
  0-12m 12-24m 24-36m 36-48m 48-60m 60-72m 72-84m 84-96m 96-108m 108-120m
Kirsty Gibson 19.8 20.0 15.1 -50.7 57.7 50.5 8.2 42.2 - -
Peer Group Composite 5.9 19.9 9.6 -6.2 27.5 6.7 9.3 10.1 - -
Over / Under 13.9 0.1 5.5 -44.5 30.2 43.8 -1.1 32.1 - -
Performance vs peer group composite: Kirsty Gibson
How a manager matches up against their peers gives you some idea of how talented they are. Very few managers perform equally well in rising and falling markets, so knowing which type of market a manager is capable of performing well within is also important.
 
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Outperformed peer group composite
6 years
out of a possible 8
 
Overall markets
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Underperformed peer group composite
2 years
out of a possible 8
 
Rising markets
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Outperformed peer group composite
6 years
out of a possible 7
 
Falling markets
UpDown
Outperformed peer group composite
0 years
out of a possible 1
Funds currently managed
Fund Sole/Co-managed Sector Periods
Baillie Gifford American Co-managed IA North America since Jan 01 2018 to present
Baillie Gifford Worldwide US Equity Growth Co-managed FO Equity - USA since Jan 01 2018 to present
Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust PLC Co-managed IT North America since Mar 01 2021 to present
Baillie Gifford UK and Worldwide Equity Co-managed IA Unclassified since Sep 06 2021 to present
Funds managed previously
Fund Periods
Baillie Gifford Positive Change since Jan 03 2017 to Sep 01 2020
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