Time Line
- 1909 - Launch of Straits Mortgage & Trust Limited
- 1913 - Name change to Scottish Mortgage & Trust Company Limited
- 1914-18 - First World War
- 1929 - Wall Street Crash
- 1933 - Scottish Mortgage cuts dividend - the only time in its history
- 1939-45 - Second World War
- 1957 - Macmillan tells Britons they have "never had it so good" - reflects post-war economic and stock market boom
- 1965 - Finance Act - major tax changes
- 1969 - Scottish Mortgage merges with two other trusts: Second Scottish Mortgage & Scottish Capital
- 1973-4 - Oil shock and stock market crash
- 1975 - Start of a 25-year bull run in equities
- 2000 - Long bull market ends with bursting of technology bubble
- 2002 - Name change to Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC
- 2003-7 - Market rally led by emerging markets and commodities
- 2008 - Scottish Mortgage annual dividend per share reaches record high of 10.3 pence. Severe stock market falls as banking and credit crisis takes place
- 2009 - Scottish Mortgage's 100th AGM held in June in Edinburgh.
- 2010 - Tom Slater appointed Deputy Manager of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC
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