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David Blackwell, the FT’s Smaller Companies Correspondent, has worked on the company news desk since the early 1990s and has followed Aim (the Alternative Investment Market) closely since its launch by the London Stock Exchange in 1995. His Small Talk column, which appears on Thursdays, covers a broad range of issues affecting smaller listed companies, including those on Aim and Ofex. He has twice been Aim Journalist of the Year, and also won the award for best research at the Aim 10th birthday awards in October 2005.
In previous posts at the FT he has been Commodities Editor and worked on the International Company News Desk. - -
Tale of two companies shows how hard 2011 was for Aim
The tough conditions prevailing on the junior market have been highlighted by the faltering steps of Reddwerks Corporation and Auhua Clean Energy
Software companies take flight from Aim
WorkPlace International, Clarity Comerce Solutions and Parseq are leaving the market
UraMin deal was a wager on new power stations
Areva’s purchase of the miner was a long-term bet that nuclear reactors would be built amid concerns about energy security and climate change
Lack of ambition evident in Aim’s slim pickings
The latest LSE statistics show that the junior market will this year be raising little more than half the £1.2bn of new money raised in 2010
Promising tyre company struggles to gain traction
Transense Technologies has return to its shareholders to raise £2.5m in what looks like an innovative scheme
Uneasy equilibrium as Aim exodus slows
The past quarter’s optimism is proving difficult to sustain but new arrivals show Aim is still venture capital with a quote
Enigmatic falls short in pursuit of Clarity
The computer services provider rejects their offer as ‘highly opportunistic’. It has also received expressions of interest from other groups
Board move highlights Plus Markets turmoil
Leading shareholder seeks to put Simon Brickles, the former chief executive, back on the board of Aim-listed exchange
All Leisure shares slip downward
Although the company has been increasing revenues, profits have suffered during the past couple of years, partly because of fuel price fluctuations
Clearstream highlights Aim undervaluing fears
While Clearstream has been profitable for the past two years, it is still in the growth stage. It is not the first Aim company snapped up by a US giant at a big premium, and it will not be the last
