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Company snapshot — Alliance Witan Ord

ALW.L in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Alliance Witan Ord is a UK-listed investment trust that pools shareholders' money to invest across global equity markets. It sits within financial services, in the asset-management industry, and uses external managers to run different portions of its portfolio. Its history traces back to a Dundee company founded in 1888, now operating as a London-based closed-end fund.
Where it sits in the stack
The diary holds no Closelook index seat for this name, so it does not sit on a Rubin or Halo layer. Closelook places it in the wider financial-services universe, in the asset-management sleeve alongside other listed investment trusts, tracked as a pooled vehicle rather than a constraint on any build-out layer.
Who it is priced against
Closelook records no peer group for this name. The market commonly compares it with F&C Investment Trust, another long-running global-equity trust that also blends several external managers within one portfolio.
Why Closelook tracks it
Alliance Witan carries no Closelook index seat and no score yet, and the diary notes no editions or quotes referencing it so far. It appears in the diary through its chart readings alone, not through any index membership.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether the trust's share price moves closer to or further from its net asset value, and whether returns across its external managers begin to diverge from broader global-equity benchmarks.

Alliance Witan Ord (ALW.L) trades on the LSE exchange in UK.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for ALW.L, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Asset Management · UK · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Asset Management · UK

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against ALW.L on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 2.11%, quarterly · last 7.33 GBP on 2026-08-27

Dividends and capital return

What ALW.L pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 28.82 GBP per share · a 2.11% yield on the 2026-09-17 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-17
  • Change on the year +38.0% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 20.89 GBP per share
  • Last distribution 7.33 GBP per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-27
  • By calendar year 2025: 27.97 GBP (partial) · 2026: 21.74 GBP to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-02-27

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Alliance Witan Ord (ALW.L)?

Alliance Witan Ord trades as ALW.L on the LSE exchange (UK) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is ALW.L in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Alliance Witan Ord is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does ALW.L trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +0.9% vs the 50-day and +6.1% vs the 200-day average, 1.6% below the 52-week high and +17.1% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Alliance Witan Ord do?

Alliance Witan Ord is a UK-listed investment trust that pools shareholders' money to invest across global equity markets. It sits within financial services, in the asset-management industry, and uses external managers to run different portions of its portfolio. Its history traces back to a Dundee company founded in 1888, now operating as a London-based closed-end fund. Closelook records no peer group for this name. The market commonly compares it with F&C Investment Trust, another long-running global-equity trust that also blends several external managers within one portfolio.

Where does Alliance Witan Ord sit in the AI build-out?

The diary holds no Closelook index seat for this name, so it does not sit on a Rubin or Halo layer. Closelook places it in the wider financial-services universe, in the asset-management sleeve alongside other listed investment trusts, tracked as a pooled vehicle rather than a constraint on any build-out layer. Alliance Witan carries no Closelook index seat and no score yet, and the diary notes no editions or quotes referencing it so far. It appears in the diary through its chart readings alone, not through any index membership.

Does Alliance Witan Ord pay a dividend?

Alliance Witan Ord has paid 28.82 GBP per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 2.11% on the 2026-09-17 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 7.33 GBP on 2026-08-27. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for ALW.L, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Asset Management. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.