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AIM – The Wild West of Investment?

Chapter

Introduction

Oliver Ralph

Market Views:

Dominic Picarda

Market Movers:

Martin Graham

Market Musings:

Mr Bearbull

Market Talk:

Sean O'Flanagan of Collins Stewart

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Programme Overview

This week we're taking a closer look at AIM, the Alternative Investment Market, home to seventeen hundred small companies.

Dominic Picarda looks at the valuation of UK shares and asks how expensive they are by past standards and whether it matters that earnings are so far above their long-term trend.

We then discuss the growth of AIM and the impact of recent tax changes with Martin Graham of the London Stock Exchange.

And in our debate, Sean O'Flanagan of Collins Stewart argues against the notion that AIM is still a high risk, high reward market.

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