Alliance Trust

Tim Tookey Alliance Trust Savings has appointed Tim Tookey as chair of the Alliance Trust Savings Board.

Lord Smith of Kelvin Shares in the Dundee-based Alliance Trust rose by over 3 per cent this morning following the news of a takeover approach by Jacob Rothschild’s RIT Capital Partners.

Katherine Garret-Cox Former Alliance Trust director Tim Ingram has followed up the open letter he addressed to shareholders in the Dundee firm last week and further turned up the heat on the investment house’s current board by claiming that chief executive Katherine Garrett-Cox’sremuneration can

Alliance Trust chief executive Katherine Garrett-Cox, who is currently embroiled in an increasingly bitter dispute with an American activist investor to shake up the Dundee-based firm’s board, has now been short-listed for a prestigious national award. She is in the running for the Veuve Clicquot

The board of Alliance Trust has issued a direct appeal to its 60,000 shareholders to reject a move by its largest investor to install a trio of new directors on the Dundee-based firm’s board. In a circular sent out yesterday, the Trust’s current bosses claimed that the boardroom shake up instiga

Elliott Advisors, the US hedge fund group agitating for board changes at Alliance Trust has rebutted claims from the Dundee-based firm that its intentions are a threat to the company’s very existence. That claim was made on Friday by the 127 year-old Trust in a statement issued in response to Elli