Small cap Archive

Just over 40 percent of investors have noticed a reduction in the availability and breadth of research for small and mid-cap companies since the introduction of Mifid II, according to a survey by the International Capital Market Association (Icma), the Zurich-based trade body. This trend is likely to continue as Mifid II feeds further into the system, warns Icma’s Asset Management and Investors Council (Amic), which carried out the survey for the second year. ...

As we look to the immediate future from the UK perspective, the crystal ball becomes somewhat clouded by the uncertainty over the shape of impending Brexit and what Britain’s trading relationships will be in the years ahead with the EU, as well as with its other trading partners. With just a few months remaining, British businesses are ha...

HSBC has announced that it is expanding its small and mid-cap equity research teams, with new hires in the UK and Hong Kong.  The new additions to the equity research teams ‘demonstrate the increasing importance of small and mid-cap stocks to investor portfolios globally,’ says the bank in a press statement. It adds that the newly expa...

Block Energy is an oil and gas company aiming to capitalize on first-mover advantage to build the largest independent producer in Georgia, a proven but underdeveloped oil-producing nation. In June this year the company completed its IPO journey and is now listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market (Aim). Paul Haywood, CEO at Block Energy, talks us through the i...