Give Alliance Trust another chance

David C Stevenson explains why it's time to give Alliance Trust another look.

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Alliance Trust: reasonable cost, progressive dividend

We all know that investing in funds can be a complicated task. You're encouraged by people like me to diversify your funds (and underlying "exposure" to asset classes), but the actual job of picking a fund can sometimes make you feel a little like Solomon presented with his mythical choices. Which one, when and for how long? Because of all this complexity, many investors prefer to keep it simple, and pick one core fund in which they sit tight for the long term. If all goes to plan, this fund gives exposure to a range of geographies and themes.

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David C. Stevenson
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David Stevenson has been writing the Financial Times Adventurous Investor column for nearly 15 years and is also a regular columnist for Citywire. He writes his own widely read Adventurous Investor SubStack newsletter at davidstevenson.substack.com

David has also had a successful career as a media entrepreneur setting up the big European fintech news and event outfit www.altfi.com as well as www.etfstream.com in the asset management space. 

Before that, he was a founding partner in the Rocket Science Group, a successful corporate comms business. 

David has also written a number of books on investing, funds, ETFs, and stock picking and is currently a non-executive director on a number of stockmarket-listed funds including Gresham House Energy Storage and the Aurora Investment Trust. 

In what remains of his spare time he is a presiding justice on the Southampton magistrates bench.