Alliance Trust plc, the £3.9 billion Dundee-headquartered fund, said it produced “very strong” investment returns for the six months ended June 30, 2024, with a…

Dundee-headquartered Alliance Trust plc and London-based Witan Investment Trust plc have agreed to merge to create a company managing £5 billion in the latest example of consolidation…

Alliance Trust plc, the £3.9 billion Dundee-headquartered fund, announced that its external investment manager Willis Tower Watson (WTW) has appointed a new stock picker for…

Alliance Trust plc, the £3.4 billion Dundee-headquartered fund, has published its results for the year ended December 31, 2023, showing total shareholder return of 20.2%. This…

Alliance Trust plc, the £3.4 billion Dundee-headquartered fund, has declared a fourth interim dividend of 6.34p per share, up 5.7% on the equivalent dividend of 6p…

Alliance Trust plc, the £3.4 billion Dundee fund, announced that Gregor Stewart will retire from the board and as chair of the investment trust company…

Alliance Trust plc, the £3.3 billion Dundee investment trust company, said the fund’s net asset value (NAV) Total Return was 11.1% for the six months ended June…

Alliance Trust plc, the £3.3 billion Dundee investment trust company, announced that its investment manager Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has appointed Los Angeles-based Asia investment specialist…

Alliance Trust plc, the £3.1 billion Dundee investment trust company which uses external fund managers Willis Towers Watson (WTW), announced that its 2022 total shareholder return…

Alliance Trust plc, the £3.2 billion Dundee investment trust company which uses external fund managers Willis Towers Watson (WTW), announced that Vicky Hastings and Milyae Park have…

The £3.5 billion Dundee investment trust company Alliance Trust plc has announced it wants to “achieve a more ethnically diverse board” over the next two…

Alliance Trust plc, the £3.2 billion Dundee investment trust company which uses external fund managers Willis Towers Watson (WTW), said on Monday its total dividend…

Alliance Trust plc, the £3 billion Dundee investment trust company which uses external fund managers Willis Towers Watson (WTW), said on Thursday that a court…

Alliance Trust plc, the £3 billion Dundee investment trust company which uses external fund managers Willis Towers Watson (WTW), said on Tuesday that the final hearing…

The £3 billion Dundee investment trust company Alliance Trust plc, which uses external fund managers Willis Towers Watson (WTW), announced board changes as it revealed…

Dundee investment trust company Alliance Trust plc, which uses external fund managers Willis Towers Watson (WTW), said on Wednesday it has terminated Lomas Capital Management…

Dundee investment trust company Alliance Trust plc, which uses external fund managers Willis Towers Watson (WTW), said on Monday that WTW has appointed Lomas Capital…

Dundee investment trust company Alliance Trust plc, which now uses external fund managers Willis Towers Watson (WTW), said on Thursday the first six months of…

Dundee investment company Alliance Trust plc, which now uses external fund managers Willis Towers Watson (WTW), said on Friday its total shareholder return for 2019…

Retirement and investment firm Embark Group has agreed in principle to acquire the advised and partnership client books of Dundee-based Alliance Trust Savings (ATS) from…

Dundee-based investment firm Alliance Trust plc said Willis Towers Watson, its appointed external investment manager, has added Alabama-based Vulcan Value Partners (VVP) to its multi-manager…

Dundee-based investment firm Alliance Trust, which appointed external asset managers Willis Towers Watson in 2017, said on Thursday that Scottish boardroom veteran Robert Smith has decided…

Dundee-based investment firm Alliance Trust, which appointed external asset managers Willis Towers Watson (WTW) in 2017, said on Thursday its total shareholder return (TSR) was 16.8%…

Dundee-based Alliance Trust plc, the £3 bilion global investment trust (closed end fund), announced on Tuesday it appointment of Hermes Equity Ownership Services (HEOS) to…

Dundee-based investment firm Alliance Trust, which appointed external asset managers Willis Towers Watson (WTW) in April 2017, said on Friday it underperformed its benchmark in 2018….

Dundee-based investment firm Alliance Trust said on Monday it agreed the sale of its subsidiary company Alliance Trust Savings (ATS) to Interactive Investor (ii), the…

Dundee-based investment firm Alliance Trust plc said on Thursday it has received “a number of expressions of interest” in buying its Alliance Trust Savings (ATS) business….

Dundee-based investment firm Alliance Trust on Friday announced its 2016 results, saying its share price rose 23% over the year, total shareholder return rose from 10.7% to 26.4%, and…

Dundee-based investment firm Alliance Trust said its shareholders approved its radical plans to outsource its equity portfolio management and buy back the 19.75% stake of its biggest shareholder, US activist hedge fund…

ShareSoc, the UK Individual Shareholders Society, warned of “major problems” for Dundee-based investment firm Alliance Trust if shareholders do not support the firm’s board in its radical plans to outsource its equity portfolio…

Dundee-based investment firm Alliance Trust has announced a radical strategic plan that includes the outsourcing of equity portfolio management and the sale of investment division Alliance Trust Investments to Liontrust…

Dundee-based investment trust firm Alliance Trust said its investments had underperformed its benchmark in the six months to June 30 “reflecting the turbulent market conditions around the…

RIT Capital Partners, the investment trust chaired by Lord Rothschild, said on Tuesday it will not, after all, make a takeover offer for Dundee-based investment trust…

RIT Capital Partners, the investment trust chaired by Lord Rothschild, said it has until June 27 to announce whether it will make a firm offer for Dundee-based…

Dundee-based investment trust firm Alliance Trust has received an informal merger approach from the investment trust of British financier Jacob Rothschild to create a quoted…

Dundee-based investment trust company Alliance Trust has appointed former journalist Clare Dobie as an independent non-executive director. The appointment follows a vow made in March by new…

New Alliance Trust chairman Robert Smith on Friday vowed to address the lack of gender diversity on the Dundee-based investment firm’s plc board as he delivered his first…

Dundee-based investment trust company Alliance Trust said on Monday that Katherine Garrett-Cox, CEO of its subsidiary Alliance Trust Investments (ATI), would stand down as chief executive of ATI on March…

Dundee-based investment trust company Alliance Trust said it appointed veteran Scottish financier and businessman Robert Smith, Lord Smith of Kelvin, as its new chairman. Alliance Trust,…

Dundee-based investment firm Alliance Trust, under pressure from US activist shareholder Elliott Advisors to restructure, said on Friday that its chair Karin Forseke (above) will leave her post on…

The recently-merged Alliance Witan investment trust announced the completion of the transition of assets from Witan Investment Trust to Alliance Witan following shareholder approval for…

The newly-merged Alliance Witan investment trust announced that its investment manager, Willis Towers Watson (WTW), has appointed Jennison Associates as an additional stock picker for its…

XPS Pensions Group plc, the pensions actuarial, consulting and administration business, said it has entered a strategic alliance with Edinburgh-based investment giant Abrdn plc to…

Dundee investment trust company Alliance Trust plc announced that its investment manager Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has terminated River and Mercantile (R&M) Asset Management LLP’s mandate…

Alliance Trust plc, the £3.3 billion Dundee investment trust company which uses external fund managers Willis Towers Watson (WTW), said on Friday it is “reviewing…

By Mark McSherry Dundee-based investment trust company Alliance Trust plc said it agreed to buy out the 19.75% stake in Alliance held by its biggest shareholder, US activist…

By Mark McSherry Baillie Gifford’s flagship investment trust, the £13.5 billion Scottish Mortgage fund, said it cashed in some of its huge profits from the…

US hedge fund and activist investor Elliott Investment Management has acquired a 5.037% exposure stake in Baillie Gifford’s £14 billion flagship fund, the Scottish Mortgage…

Law firm Burges Salmon has appointed Jennifer Mellor as a new Edinburgh-based director in its Funds and Financial Regulation team. “Jennifer joins Burges Salmon from…

Ahead of the Six Nations rugby starting this weekend, new data from social investing network eToro shows that the strongest XV Scotland-headquartered stocks have easily…

Abrdn’s investment platform Interactive Investor announced that the number of customers investing through its “regular investing” service rose by 19% in the first quarter of the…

Edinburgh-based global investment management partnership Baillie Gifford has announced it will appoint eight new partners from May 1, 2022, and that four partners — James Anderson,…

The Scottish National Investment Bank announced on Friday that chief executive officer Eilidh Mactaggart has resigned. No reason was given for the departure. Chief financial…

Scottish companies listed on the London Stock Exchange outperformed their indices in the third quarter of 2020 according to analysis from Brewin Dolphin, boosted by…

Infrastructure investment specialist Eilidh Mactaggart has been appointed the first CEO of the “mission-based’ Scottish National Investment Bank. The Scottish Government said it has committed…

Scottish FTSE-listed company shares have gained 6.81% in the first nine months of 2019, against the FTSE All Share’s 10.39% rise, according to the latest…

Veteran Scottish investment banker and business executive Robert Smith, Lord Smith of Kelvin, has been appointed chair of the board at Scottish Enterprise.  Smith, 75, is…

Shares of Scottish companies listed on the main FTSE stock market ended June 9.5% higher than they started the year, compared to a rise of…

Updated — The proposed sale of the UK government’s Edinburgh-based Green Investment Bank (GIB) for up to £2 billion is facing increased political scrutiny following allegations that…

Up to three groups are expected to bid for Edinburgh-based UK Green Investment Bank by Monday’s deadline, according to Bloomberg News. Bloomberg said Sustainable Development Capital LLP is leading…

Edinburgh Council has sold its prestigious Atria office development in the heart of the capital’s financial district for £105 million to Deka Immobilien, a real estate…

JLL Scotland said that on the instructions of Aberdeen Asset Management, it has listed Exchange Place at the heart of the Edinburgh financial district for sale…

The City of Edinburgh Council has put the prestigious Atria office development in the heart of the Scottish capital’s Exchange financial district on the market for…

David Whitehouse, Offshore Energies UK CEO: “Today we heard the Chancellor recognise the role of the oil and gas sector to support high quality jobs and…

Edinburgh-based Craneware plc, a provider of software for the US healthcare market, said it expects revenue for the year to exceed $188 million, which is above…

The £450 million Abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust plc announced that it extended its period of underperformance against its benchmark on both a net asset value (NAV)…

Glasgow-based cloud computing firm Iomart Group announced the appointments of Annette Nabavi and Adrian Chamberlain as independent non-executive directors of the company. Following six years on…

By Mark McSherry — Baillie Gifford’s £950 million investment trust Scottish American Investment Company (SAINTS) has extended the company’s record of dividend increases to 49 consecutive years. The…