Failed floats – think theme park operator Merlin Entertainments, fashion retailer New Look and travel software group Travelport – might be spoiling the party at the larger end of the London market, as private equity owners struggle to sell on their investments to peeved institutions with fingers previously burned.
Three key healthcare picks
EPO offers attractive entry point
Two pharma buys from Franc
Strong buys for theme park plays
Private investors have turned bullish, brokers are preparing IPOs and mergers, and certain fund managers believe that AIM offers ‘extraordinary value’.
Gold has been a prime beneficiary of the economic and financial turmoil of recent years, as befits its age-old role as an investment haven in troubled times.
With the prognosis for 2010 still uncertain, investors would do well to stash their cash into established businesses offering dependable income – all the better if they are supported by substantial assets
In a timely development, the London Stock Exchange’s launch of a new online retail bond market for government and corporate bonds – the Order book for Retail Bonds (ORB) – has positive implications not only for private investors but for the small and medium-sized companies they invest in too.
Deals and corporate ploys are once again stealing the limelight, with minerals, gas and coal all involved
Prompted by an upturn in fortunes, a number of executives have put money into their companies in recent weeks
Although levels of IPO funding fell to their lowest ever annual level in 2009, the second half proved much more active than the first and advisers are feeling much more optimistic for 2010
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Gold producer Avocet Mining hopes its Wega acquisition will take 2010 group output to 200,000 oz after a flat nine months.
AIM shell China Evoline is understood to be contemplating the injection of some Chinese mining assets.
Small and medium sized company financier Ultimate Finance has increased first-half profits 36 per cent to £191,000 pre-tax.
