Baillie Gifford's Budden: We are not all about Tesla - and we are not all about tech either

Moving on from Musk and back into the basics of investing

Pedro Gonçalves
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James Budden, director of distribution and marketing at Baillie Gifford, talks to Pedro Gonçalves about the firm’s investment strategy, performance during lockdown and how disruption made opportunities ripe for the picking.

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