Small Is Beautiful, But Struggling

Saturday, 01 February 2003
By Now&ZYen

Z/Yen, in conjunction with Jaffe, wrote a large report on Institutional Investment and Trading in UK Smaller Quoted Companies for the Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA). QCA represents thousands of companies outside the FTSE 350, many of them on AIM and OFEX. The report highlights the difficulties that smaller companies have in gaining institutional investment and the attention of asset management firms. The report recommends (perhaps paradoxically) more government interest and less government regulation as well as easier movement across markets and increased promotion to fund managers. The report is freely downloadable from the Z/Yen website.