Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon PLC

Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon PLC is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Baillie Gifford & Co Ltd. It is co-managed by Baillie Gifford & Co. The fund invests in the public equity markets of Japan. It seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. The fund primarily invests in value and growth stocks of small-cap companies having market capitalizations less than Yen 150 billion. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Tokyo Second Section Index, the TOPIX Small Index, and the JASDAQ Index. Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon PLC was formed on July 1, 1985 and is domiciled in the United Kingdom.