The latest Investing Matters Podcast with Jean Roche, Co-Manager of Schroder UK Mid Cap Investment Trust has just been released. Listen here.
Oh, my bad - let me correct myself by correcting you...you suggested the only option available to Davey was "...have funded at least to pre-IPO equities in last year, liquid assets in excess of �250,000? That's the requirement to qualify for Gold on Britdaq...." Not true, is it?
As Okenia knows only too well, the option to pick "high net worth" is available to all - let's not put the frighteners up Davey now. Bear in mind, everything has costs these days and the initial conversion to paper is the result of you not requesting paper in the first place. If you don't see the value in being able to trade for less than �100 then perhaps you need either to read up more or wait until we are trading on a new platform.
You don't get your shares "into" Britdaq, you simply convert them to paper certificates, send a copy to Britdaq to prove you have them and you're good to go. You can even offer them for sale on Britdaq before you have completed that process, on the basis that you will receive them from your broker (eventually)