Private investors must be encouraged to invest in UK smaller companies to compensate for a fall off ...
Private investors must be encouraged to invest in UK smaller companies to compensate for a fall off in institutional interest. That is the conclusion of an independent report commissioned by the DTI and put together by a group headed by Tim Waterstone, chairman of HMV Media Group. Delistings in smaller quoted companies (SQCs) have risen to their highest level since the last recession due to a lack of liquidity, according to the research the commission compiled. This has happened because SQCs have been over-reliant on decreasing numbers of institutional investors with increasingly large f...
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