Bespoke Equity Portfolio Management

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

  • 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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  • Podcast - Talking Research

    Curious about how Walter Scott is charting a course through volatile stock markets? In this podcast, Investment Manager AJ Kyle and Executive Director Roy Leckie delve into three critical areas.

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  • Insights

    Uncertainty over tariffs and their economic consequences abounds, but innovation and enterprise never stop. Roy Leckie takes a positive view on the long-term outlook for the world’s leading companies.

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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
181
employees
$77.9bn
assets under management
130
clients in 17 countries

(Data as at 30th June 2025)

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