Baillie Gifford senior partner Plowden hits back at active management critics

Letter published in the FT

Jayna Rana
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Baillie Gifford's Charles Plowden, joint senior partner and manager of the £1bn Monks investment trust, has criticised the "oversimplification" and "flawed analysis" used in coverage of the active versus passive management debate.

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