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Latest Press Releases
22 April 2008
Alliance Trust urges those nearing 75 to weigh up carefully all the options available
Alliance Trust Savings, a leading SIPP provider, today urged all those saving for retirement to consider carefully all their options for taking income from their SIPP as they approach the age of 75. Alliance Trust also notes that the government and pensions providers should help clarify widely held misconceptions about pensions rules, such as that annuities are the only option for people aged 75 and over to take SIPP income, when this is not the case.
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21 April 2008
Alliance Trust announces its results for year to 31 January 2008
Alliance Trust PLC, announced today that its revenue rose to £82.6m in the year to 31 January 2008, from £68.1m in the previous financial year. However, the net asset value of the Company fell to £2,699m in the 12 months to 31 January 2008 from £2,832m the year before. In a volatile year, a sharp fall in stock markets in January 2008 alone when the FTSE All-Share fell 8.7%, erased gains made to the end of the previous 11 months.
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15 April 2008
Latest figures show elderly hit hardest by high food and energy costs
Alliance Trust’s independent study of age related inflation has found that inflation hit the over 75 year olds the hardest in March – this age group faces an inflation rate of 3.4%. Inflation rates facing all other identified age groups decreased slightly in March but still remained ahead of the official headline rate of inflation of 2.5%.
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02 April 2008
Big shake-up for £80 billion worth of PEP investments gives investors more opportunity to 'wake up' their accounts
More than 3.5 million* people will be able to breathe new life into their PEPs, when PEP and ISA consolidation comes into effect on 6 April 2008.
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31 March 2008
Alliance Trust urges investors to make sure they use up their allowance before tax year ends
Investors have only a few days left to use up their tax-efficient ISA allowance with financial services provider, Alliance Trust Savings.
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28 March 2008
Alliance Trust Savings opens up its Adviser Centre
Alliance Trust Savings today announced that it has improved its adviser centre, offering professional advisers a direct link to a fully interactive site incorporating pension planning tools, product factsheets and personalised access to its technical pensions team’s expertise.
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18 March 2008
Elderly hit hardest by high food and energy costs
Alliance Trust’s independent study of age related inflation has found that the inflation rates facing all five of its identified age groups increased in February.
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17 March 2008
Alliance Trust Savings welcomes Close investors on to 'best of breed' investment platform
Financial services company Alliance Trust Savings today announced that the administration of over 4,200 Close Investments Limited (Close) ISAs, PEPs and share plan wrappers has been successfully transferred to its open architecture investment platform.
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14 March 2008
Alliance Trust highlights end of tax year pension planning opportunities
With the new tax year only days away, Alliance Trust is urging professional advisers to take advantage of ‘use them or lose them’ opportunities for tax saving to enhance their clients' pension arrangements before the tax-year-end deadline passes.
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03 March 2008
Alliance Trust Savings announces successful transfer of investment trust ISAs, PEPs and share plan wrappers from Allianz Global Investors.
Alliance Trust Savings, the financial services company, today announces the successful completion of almost 4,500 ISA, PEP and Share Plan wrapper transfers from Allianz Global Investors’ (AGI).
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22 February 2008
Alliance Trust appoints new non-executive director
Alliance Trust PLC is pleased to announce the appointment of John Hylands as a non-executive director of the Company with immediate effect.
John will join the Audit Committee, becoming its Chairman when the current Audit Committee Chairman, Gordon McQueen, resigns from the Board on 31 March.
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05 February 2008
Alliance Trust comments on its expected entry into FTSE-100 index
Following the announcement today (Tuesday) that Alliance Trust PLC is expected to join the FTSE-100 on Thursday, Alliance Trust Chief Executive Alan Harden said:
"Alliance Trust is an actively managed, broad-based investment group and the fact it has reached this size is a testament to our company's success in generating investment growth and meeting our core objective. We are here to drive capital and income return over the long term through different economic cycles and that is what we focus on every day."
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04 February 2008
Alliance Trust appoints Head of Distribution for Alliance Trust Asset Management Limited
International investment and financial services group Alliance Trust has appointed Edward Troughton as Managing Director, Asset Management Distribution. He will play a key role in the development of a new UK asset management business, Alliance Trust Asset Management Limited (ATAM), and will lead the distribution of products and services for ATAM and manage key client relationships.
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23 January 2008
Alliance Trust offers discounted £10-a-buy Investment Dealing
Alliance Trust Savings, the share dealing expert, today announced customers can purchase shares online for the reduced rate of £10 commission until the end of January. The offer will make it cheaper for investors to buy shares which they identify as being bargains as worldwide stock market turmoil drives down some companies' prices.
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22 January 2008
Consumers ignoring worsening financial reality as budgets take more strain
The global credit squeeze, rising consumer debt, continuing fiscal deficit, inflationary pressures and a potential slowdown in the housing market will slow UK economic growth in 2008 and hamper our ability to react to potential problems, according to a new report from Alliance Trust Research Centre. In the latest report in its Current Issues series, Alliance Trust focuses on the UK economy and the five major challenges it faces in 2008, which will halve the rate of GDP growth to around 1-1.5%.
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21 January 2008
Gold, platinum and diamonds to shine on in 2008, says Alliance Trust
Alliance Trust, the largest generalist investment trust company listed on the London Stock Exchange, today forecast that a combination of rising demand from Asian economies and a continuing global tightness of supply will result in another strong year for the mining sector. Selective investors will be able to benefit from exposure to larger players, while the prospect of a mega-merger between sector giants BHP and Rio could boost mining stocks across the board.
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