17 July 2006

London's Alternative Investment Market - Part II

I recently made a post discussing the London Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and the increased interest in using AIM.

Well, in the most recent issue (July/August 2006) of Lexpert magazine (a Canadian magazine for lawyers) there is a nice article on the AIM and I will note a few of the statistic they use.

- total market cap is 75 billion (a fivefold increase of the last 5 years)

- 20 billion was raised in 2005

- in Q1 2006 6.5 billion was invested

- 519 companies did IPO’s in 2005

Also noted is that the regulatory regime for AIM, while vigorous, is more streamlined than one would find in North America, especially when one considers Sarbanes-Oxley and the SEC.

Something to chew on if you are considering an IPO as a means of expansion…

17 Jul 2006 12:51:17 | Financing

Verify your Comment

Previewing your Comment

Posted by:  | 

This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.

Working...
Your comment could not be posted. Error type:
Your comment has been posted. Post another comment

The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Please try again.

As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.

Working...

Leave a comment

(URLs automatically linked.)

Your Information

Name is required. Email address will not be displayed with the comment.

NEXT POST
Teachers' Copyright : Here is an interesting business plan. This chap in the USA thought it would be a good idea to set up a web site where teachers upload their teaching materials and sell them to other teachers. It remains to be...
PREVIOUS POST
Mentos, Diet Coke, and Intenet and Money How do they all come together? Go here. There is a video (it is clean I assure you). View it. I particularly like the fact that one of the authors is a lawyer. Some of us are fun and have...

RCP

Recent Comments