Fast Facts
Alliance Trust PLC is a self-managed investment company with investment trust status. With headquarters in Dundee, Alliance Trust PLC, a FTSE-100 company has been investing since 1888 and is the largest generalist UK investment trust by assets listed on the London Stock Exchange. As at 31 July 2008, it managed assets of nearly £2.6bn.
Established in 1888, Alliance Trust’s headquarters are in Dundee and it has offices in London, and Edinburgh. Alliance Trust employs more than 300 people, most of whom are based at its Dundee offices
Our objective at Alliance Trust PLC is to be a core investment for investors seeking a long term store of increasing value.
Our assets are invested worldwide and across a range of sectors and asset classes to achieve diversification and manage risk. As well as quoted equities, the company also invests in other assets such as private equity, direct property and in its subsidiary companies.
Our principal subsidiaries are in asset management and financial services. The asset management business manages assets for other companies and funds for institutional and private investors.
Alliance Trust Savings, a wholly-owned subsidiary, which is also an authorised bank, offers investment dealing and pensions to individual investors and their advisers through its enhanced wrap platform. Alliance Trust Savings provides sharedealing, investment wrapper accounts such as ISAs, a full range of Self-Invested Personal Pensions, and accounts for investing for children such as First Steps and its Children’s SIPP.