Alliance Trust

  • Elliott grows stake in Alliance Trust

    Elliott grows stake in Alliance Trust

    US hedge fund Elliott Associates has grown its stake in Alliance Trust to just more than 10%.

  • New managers for Alliance Trust fixed income team

    New managers for Alliance Trust fixed income team

    The fixed income team at Alliance Trust Investments has taken on new co-managers from within the firm for two bond funds.

  • Alliance Trust raising fees

    Alliance Trust raising fees

    Investment platform Alliance Trust Savings (ATS) has raised its annual administration fees in a move it said will allow it to maintain the quality of service to customers and to continue to meet regulatory standards.

  • Alliance Trust pounces on Vodafone

    Alliance Trust pounces on Vodafone

    Alliance Trust has added Vodafone to its portfolio, with equity manager Ilario di Bon buying into changes afoot in the European telecoms sector.

  • 14 new names added to Alliance Trusts platform

    14 new names added to Alliance Trusts platform

    Alliance Trust Savings has added 14 fund managers to its investment platform, growing the number of clean share class funds to more than 2,000 ahead of its target.

  • greater regulation weak response to failure

    greater regulation weak response to failure

    We all have the ability to look back in history with rose-tinted glasses especially to the periods when we were growing up (the 1970s in this case), even if that means remembering those skin-tight flares, platform shoes and black and white TVs.

  • Booming global equities boost Alliance Trust

    Booming global equities boost Alliance Trust

    Alliance Trust had its best Q1 for 15 years due to strong global equity performance and limited exposure to the UK market.

  • Strong performance for Alliance Trust

    Strong performance for Alliance Trust

    Alliance Trust increased its dividend by 7% in 2012, its 46th consecutive annual increase, following a year of portfolio restructuring and team consolidation.

  • alliance trust boosts sales force

    alliance trust boosts sales force

    Alliance Trust Savings (ATS) has expanded its platform intermediary sales force to eight members and appointed a marketing communications head as part of a “major push” for 2013.

  • patience required

    patience required

    While stock markets and economies continue to diverge from each other, George Renouf argues that well-managed companies are still the driver of returns as long as investment strategists remain patient.

  • photo gallery portfolio adviser expert investor us

    photo gallery portfolio adviser expert investor us

    At the Portfolio Adviser Expert Investor US event, the wealth manager delegates heard about the lack of impact they could expect from the fiscal cliff that will be reached on – or pushed back from – 1 January next year.

  • alliance trust cuts holdings by half

    alliance trust cuts holdings by half

    Alliance Trust has completed a major portfolio restructuring which has seen its number of holdings reduced by 50% and, for the first time in 27 years, its largest holding a firm listed outside the UK.