Bespoke Equity Portfolio Management

We invest, as a team, in companies that can generate wealth over the long term.

  • Podcast - Talking Research

    Charlie Macquaker reflects on 34 years at Walter Scott, sharing insights from his early days to recent research trips, and discusses the principles that underpin the firm’s investment approach.

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  • Insights

    Can China wean itself off overseas technology and become self-sufficient in semiconductors? Tom Miedema and Michael Scott visited the country to find out more.

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  • The Research Journal

    This year’s Journal looks different. It has more colour, more character and more columns. But the Journal’s ambition remains the same: to share the ideas shaping our thinking.

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WHO WE ARE

We are Walter Scott. We were established in 1983 to manage bespoke equity portfolios for institutional clients around the world. We undertake in-depth research to find growth companies that have the ability to consistently compound wealth over the long term.

Our team analyses and debates every investment idea with discipline and rigour. We believe that a team approach ensures better investment decisions.

Key to our success is the consistent implementation of our tried-and-tested investment philosophy by an experienced, motivated and collaborative team.

OUR CLIENTS

Our clients are as global as our investment universe. We manage equity portfolios for institutional clients around the world, including public and private pension funds, endowments, foundations, family offices, insurers and financial organisations.

We also sub-advise a number of distribution partner funds in the US, Canada, Europe, the UK, Asia and Australia.

IN NUMBERS

1983
Walter Scott & Partners Limited founded
180
employees
$71.3bn
assets under management
126
clients in 16 countries

(Data as at 30th September 2025)

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