AIM (Alternative Investment Market)
25 Apr 2008AIM (alternative investment market) is a market run by the London Stock Exchange for trading in companies too small to list on its main market. The requirements for an AIM listing are much less str...
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Angel Investor
25 Apr 2008Many start-up companies cannot raise venture capital investment. This is usually because they are simply too small to interest venture capitalists, who typically have lower limits on investments of a ...
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Amortisation
25 Apr 2008Amortisation is the equivalent of depreciation for intangible assets. As this is essentially an accounting adjustment that has no effect on future cash flows, investors frequently use profit measur...
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Alpha Fund
25 Apr 2008The term alpha fund is misleading because although it implies maximising alpha, it in fact usually simply means actively managed to out-perform a benchmark. The fact that funds that actually try to ou...
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Alpha
25 Apr 2008The α (alpha) of a security or fund is its outperformance over the return adjusted for risk, with risk measured by β (beta). α= (r - rf) - (β×(rm - rf)) where rf is the ...
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Allotment
25 Apr 2008Allotment is the allocation of securities to applicants for a new issue. The allotment process is trivially simple if an issue is not oversubscribed: each applicant gets whatever they applied for. ...
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