Scottish Mortgage's Anderson: 'We don't want to tell companies how to do it. We want to help people be revolutionary'

Backing the revolutionaries

Scottish Mortgage investment trust manager James Anderson tells Cherry Reynard investment managers have an important role in finding and supporting enduring businesses that can change the world.

On waking in the morning, a doctor will have a reasonably clear vision of their tasks for the day ahead - they may be mending a broken leg, or performing heart surgery, but their purpose is to make people better. The purpose of an investment manager is not always as obvious. Is it to beat their peer group? The benchmark?  Or do they have a wider role? James Anderson (pictured), manager of the £4.1bn Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, is clear that an effective investment manager should do more than simply move money from place to place. They have, he believes, a role in helping the best...