Alliance trust
30 April 2012
Alliance Trust Investments has poached SWIP bond manager Juan Valenzuela to head up a new fixed income fund.
27 April 2012
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11 April 2012
With Alliance Trust back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons following Laxey Partners' latest challenge, Investment Week looks at five other brutal activist battles over the years.
04 April 2012
Activist investor Laxey Partners has thrown its weight behind reports Aberdeen Asset Management is set to launch a takeover bid for Alliance Trust.
03 April 2012
Aberdeen Asset Management CEO Martin Gilbert said he wants to oust Katherine Garrett-Cox as chief executive of the £2.1bn Alliance Trust.
13 March 2012
Activist investor Laxey Partners has reignited its long-running feud with Alliance Trust, urging it to hand over the management of its assets to a third party.
06 March 2012
Alliance Trust has upped its dividend by 7% and posted a turnaround in performance in its annual results, with the trust leaping to top quartile in its sector.
05 March 2012
Alliance Trust chief executive Katherine Garrett-Cox has admitted the company needs to drive up demand for its shares in order to reduce its discount.
13 January 2012
Fund management groups struggled to raise assets for new products last year, with just eight funds launched in 2011 taking in more than £100m, according to FE data.
10 October 2011
George Renouf, director of investment strategy at Alliance Trust Asset Management, looks at how investors can navigate political wrangling and backward-looking economic statistics.
26 September 2011
Annabel Brodie-Smith, communications director of the Association of Investment Companies, says the ability to retain dividends is a key benefit of the investment trust structure.
23 September 2011
Improving returns for shareholders is the only way Alliance Trust will substantially reduce its discount, analysts have warned.
21 June 2011
Alliance Trust has appointed Ilario Di Bon, former manager of the Fidelity Global Opportunities fund, as its global head of equities.
17 June 2011
Here in the UK, household budgets are currently under attack from insufficient growth in earnings and higher costs for basic goods and services.
20 May 2011
Alliance Trust has won its long-running feud with activist Laxey Partners after shareholders voted against the introduction of a discount control mechanism (DCM).
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