Why Scottish Mortgage is a value trust and not a tech trust

Clearing up misconceptions

Lauren Mason
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The £8.6bn Scottish Mortgage investment trust often gets incorrectly labelled as a technology fund and is mistakenly deemed "not to be a value fund", according to Baillie Gifford's Catharine Flood.

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