Baillie Gifford, the Edinburgh based investment management partnership, has appointed Lesley Dunn as co-manager of the Baillie Gifford Corporate Bond Fund and Lucy Isles as co-manager of the Baillie Gifford High Yield Bond Fund.
Dunn will join Torcail Stewart and Stephen Rodger as a co-manager on the Corporate Bond Fund, with assets under management of GBP727 million. Dunn is an investment manager in the High Yield team, having joined Baillie Gifford from Aberdeen Asset Management in 2016. Dunn has over 16 years’ investment experience and has an excellent long term record of managing both High Yield and Investment Grade bond portfolios.
Isles will work alongside Robert Baltzer in co-managing the GBP458 million High Yield Bond Fund. Isles joined Baillie Gifford as a graduate from the University of St Andrews in 2012 and became an investment manager in the High Yield team in 2015.
James Budden, Director of Retail Marketing & Distribution, Baillie Gifford, says: “At Baillie Gifford we strongly believe in the merits of a team based approach to fund management. Lesley and Lucy have both played key roles in the Credit team and their appointments to co-managers reflects the ongoing contribution they have made to the management of these funds.”
