Alternative Investment Market

• Securities Regulation in Low-Tier Listing Venues: The Rise of the Alternative Investment Market

The worldwide growth of competing trading for a and a stirring movement for reform in the US have given new life to an old debate concerning the proper degree of regulatory stringency for financial markets. Ascertaining the level of securities regulation that will prove most effective in increasing overall social welfare is not an easy task. This Article suggests an alternative model to the one-size-fits-all approach that prevails in US securities regulation. A broad approach might prove inadequate when tested in a global market, encompassing jurisdictions with differing characteristics or when applied to firms with heterogeneous incentive structures. Alternative Investment Market's (AIM) regulatory model balances investor protection and compliance costs. Its companies benefit from comp...

• Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
• Vol. 13 Nbr. 2, March 2008

• U.S. companies take 'AIM' at the U.K. stock market.

Alternative Investment Market

• The Tax Adviser
• Vol. 37 Nbr. 8, August 2006

• Solid Gold

ALTERNATIVE Investment Market listed gold-mining company Peninsular Gold is all set for a dazzling future with gold prices soaring and rapid expansion. THE FUTURE SEEMS BRIGHT AND glittery for Peninsular Gold Ltd (PGL), an Alternative Investment Market (AIM) listed gold-mining company in the UK controlled by Malaysian businessman Datuk Sri Andrew Kam.

• Malaysian Business
• January 27, 2011

• Isle Of Man Continues To Be Dominant In Alternative Investment Market (AIM) Listings.

Recent research commissioned by the Isle of Man Government has shown the Isle of Man continues to dominate the AIM market. The research was conducte...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2012, January 2012

• Considering listing on AIM? Consider risks & rewards: London's Alternative Investment Market has been successful in drawing companies, with more than 1,680 currently listed. U.S. companies seeking escape from the more restrictive and regulated U.S. exchanges need to scrutinize both the pros and cons of an AIM listing.

The appeal of the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market, known as AIM, as a destination for emerging growth companies, has been a popu...

• Financial Executive
• Vol. 24 Nbr. 4, May 2008

• Market failure and community investment: a market-oriented alternative to the Community Reinvestment Act.

A system of tradable obligations should be considered as a better response to imperfections affecting the credit markets in low-income communities than the approach of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). A. Brooke Overby has suggested that combatting discrimination in lending is the main objective of the CRA. However, the CRA's command-and-control regulatory approach is not designed to effectively deal with the relevant market imperfections, such as information costs and neighborhood externalities.

• University of Pennsylvania Law Review
• Vol. 143 Nbr. 5, May 1995

• The London Stock Exchange Introduces New Rules to Allow Foreign Corporations Fast-Track Entrance to its Alternative Investment Market.

Article by Keith Ott and Kevin Evans This Alert discusses The London Stock Exchange has recently introduced new rules that allow overseas companie...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2003, May 2003

• BioProgress Seeks Move to England and Admission to London's Alternative Investment Market.

Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 2002 BioProgress Technology International, Inc. (OTC BB: BPRG) today an...

• Business Wire
• December 20, 2002

• Adamind Ltd: First Day of Dealings on the Alternative Investment Market.

RA'ANANA, Israel -- The Board of Adamind Ltd. ("Adamind" or "the Company"), a software provider for the media adaptation market, announces that the Co...

• Business Wire
• February 21, 2005

• Dubai Puts $250 Million in Sharia Hedge Fund Platform

LONDON (HedgeWorld.com) - The Dubai Multi Commodities Centre Authority, a government agency in the United Arab Emirates, is seeding five sharia-compliant commodity hedge funds run from the United States with a total of $250 million through the Al Safi Trust alternative investment platform backed by Barclays Capital. The DMCC will invest $50 million in each of the five hedge funds to create a sharia-compliant fund of hedge funds to be marketed under the Dubai Shariah Asset Management brand. Shariah Capital Inc., a U.S.-based advisory firm listed on London's Alternative Investment Market, is the sharia adviser to the Al Safi platform and BarCap is the prime broker and structured products distributor.

• Daily News; White Plains
• June 19, 2008