It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
[1] SAINTS was initially formed as The Scottish American Investment Company Limited by William Menzies in March 1873.
Menzies was an Edinburgh lawyer who had visited the United States on several occasions during the 1860s and was struck during those visits by the wealth of investment opportunities in that young and rapidly growing nation.
Other participants were the Scottish emigrant American banker John Stewart Kennedy[2] and Dundee and later London financier Robert Fleming.
[3] As well as adapting its investment portfolio to changing conditions, the Company has also had to be flexible in how it conducts its affairs.