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Tom Slater

Partner at Baillie Gifford
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  • What’s most important for us is to be away from the noise of the financial market hubs represented by New York or London. I think if you’re going to do something different from an investment standpoint, you have to have a different set of inputs.

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    Fund Manager Beating Almost Everyone Says Get Out of London, NYC
    To fly from Scotland to Silicon Valley takes 14 hours. Money manager Tom Slater, whose fund is loaded with west-coast tech giants, makes a round-trip from Edinburgh about six times a year. He mostly skips the stops in London and New York.
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    Best U.S. fund managers of '18 buying healthcare, pot stocks as market wobbles
    “In a nutshell, we think very little has changed,” said Tom Slater, a portfolio manager of the $11.2 million Baillie Gifford U.S. Equity Growth fund, which has beaten the benchmark S&P 500 by 13.3 percentage points over the last 12 months. “There’s a lot of doom and gloom in financial markets but we see fairly little evidence that doom and gloom is merited.”
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    U.S. West Coast Capitalism 'Envy of the World,' Slater Says
    Tom Slater, partner and fund manager at Baillie Gifford & Co., discusses his investment strategy's regional focus, differentiating between risk and volatility, and the outlook for tech initial public offerings in 2019.
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