RE: Are we all in for a big surprise..5 Mar 2016 22:32
Wisecrow, an interesting post and I hope you don't mind I shared it on ADVFN.
I thought I would share an interesting post from ADVFN from Brad on Friday.
Carpadium 4 Mar'16 - 21:04 - 3715 of 3720 2 0
During the 2 years invested in Edge I've found Brad never slow to respond and never less than honest in his replies.
To my question 'what would you expect the annual saving to be by de-listing from AIM' Brad replied as follows. Normally I would consider it unethical to copy his reply word for word but, for UK investors, today's news is transformative and what he says may help some to make a decision.
Hi xxxxxx,
A year ago, the AIM fees were not overly burdensome; however, with the Canadian dollar plummeting and UK fees increasing (along with AIM becoming a more taxing and non-commercially-minded regulator), we went from a nominal CDN$50k/year to now approx. CDN$150k/year, which is an order of magnitude greater than the fees in Canada – literally 10x greater in the UK.
It’s one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make in this environment of hard decisions. I’m completely aware of the huge support we have in the UK and I’m sure many will take this as a slap in the face. I do hope that some will see it less emotionally as a way to cut out a major cost and try to ensure there is a light at the end of this long, dark tunnel. A bigger slap in the face would have been an announcement that Edge is bankrupt or in receivership or something else equally terminal, for example.
Thanks for the note, xxxxxx. We’ll fight our way through this…
Brad
Each to their own but I'm transferring my shares and and reasonably confident
it may prove the right decision in the long term.