SMT's Stewart Heggie: 'How long do you let the discount go on without taking concerted action?'

'High conviction call'

Eve Maddock-Jones
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Scottish Mortgage has made a “high conviction call” to address its ongoing discount, with the launch of a minimum £1bn share buyback programme, which Baillie Gifford argued is part of its solution to the trust's discount.

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