The latest Investing Matters Podcast episode featuring financial educator and author Jared Dillian has been released. Listen here.
Not sure that's the best way to contact them to be honest. I haven't seen that email address used on many things for a long time and they always prefer to give you info on the phone rather than putting it down in an email. For obvious reasons. Not that it's really worth calling. You won't get much from them at the moment.
Extensions do happen quite often with companies in Aus, like you say it's just the way they are structured. I think it's all pretty much in line with what they said they where going to do, so wouldn't be that worried if I was a BLK holder. The POL situation on the other hand is a little bit more concerning. As with the rest that missed the deadline it doesn't look like any of them are going to get it sorted in time. So what are POL going to do? I guess they could reverse into a small listed shell or something like that. Maybe in Aus? Hope they at least give us some detail on their plans if they do delist. Probably will just get a "looking at options" statement though.
We'll see. Like I said before, I think we'd get a better valuation trading on an exchange over there rather than AIM anyway. So things could work out for the better. Hibiscus up to 0.75 now! I lose track of how much that stake is worth, but must be around 5.5p now.
Most small companies that delist from AIM tend to put their shares on NEX just to give shareholders that option to trade. It's probably one the simplest/cheapest ways to do it. Obviously it's not great for trading, but usually works ok if you set orders. To be honest I can't believe I'm even contemplating this being delisted, but with only a couple of weeks left I guess you have to consider it is possible. Find it all quite bizarre!
BTW ZAI no longer on the website.
I think some people are just starting to find it a bit baffling why it's taking so long and looking for reasons. There really shouldn't be a problem when you look a some of the others that got a nomad. Even companies like Univision, which looks to be based in Hong Kong had no problem. My point was really there's only a few weeks left, so what do they do if they if they run out of time. I just don't think they'll be that worried if that happened and would continue to look to get it listed.
I just think they won't see AIM as anything that special and if they do have to list somewhere else then fair enough. It would probably actually suit them to do so. After all they are all more South east Asia/Australia based. We'll see though. Doesn't look great for them staying on AIM at the minute. Don't know how they can fit it in now they've missed the due diligence extension deadline. Maybe there is a way to get it sorted out in time. Not long to wait to find out.
I think they'll be pretty calm about it, cause they know they can quite easily put it on another exchange. They probably don't see an AIM listing as hugely important. To them it could be anywhere really.
To be fair a large player like Liberum isn't probably going to be interested in these smaller jobs anyway. POL are going to have to go to the other ones who need the business. There are plenty of them. On another note, I do find it odd that GCM has suddenly gone on such a good run, ever since the issue with the nomad came about. Why? any conspiracy theories out there? Something going on behind the scenes re:GCM/POL?
We're reading too much into it imo. They just haven't had time to "finalise" a nomad. It's nothing do with a nomad rejecting them. If there was a problem like that, that would come after due diligence. Some may simply just not have room to take on more. I think it was slightly different for GCM and a few of the others, because they had ZAI as both nomad and broker. POL only had ZAI as the nomad and looks to me like Northland Capital (like many others) will want to do both. Some companies have made them nomad and joint broker. So POL could do that. My guess is the they are looking for someone to fill just the nomad rule and that's why it's taking longer. They're probably looking around at their options......but could easily go back to Northland and make them joint broker.
Probably something tomorrow morning. POL isn't going to struggle to get a nomad. It's just takes time to get it sorted. You just have to look at some of the companies that have already appointed one. They are hardly the best companies in the world are they. Tiny market caps, debt, low cash and they can still get one. Some nomads really aren't that picky and some are just happy to get the business.
Might be a little different here than GCM as they made Northland the Nominated Adviser and Broker. POL are already using Liberum Capital as a Broker. So they could easily just use them for the Adviser as well.
Clearly some are thinking the same, that's why you can buy at such a low level. However I think they are reading too much into it. It would be unbelievable if POL couldn't get a Nomad given all the rubbish on AIM. No problem with the directors either, cause GCM can get one. Over reaction imo. One thing that did cross my mind is he might think they can get a better valuation for the assets on a different exchange. Which is probably true. Getting nowhere near a half decent valuation trading on here. Even when their main investment doubled in value, it hardly moved.
I think we'll have to see how they are going to pay the rest of the Avobone money, before you get any major movements here. If it's a Financing Agreement with someone like YA or Bergen, then I personally would rethink things, because that's really going t effect the valuation (as they always do). Hopefully for shareholders, if there is a loan, there won't be a convertible element to it. We'll see. Obviously if they start getting the $19m per quarter, then it should all be sorted out quite easily, but that's still an if. To be honest, I don't really understand that one. Where is that be coming from? The way it's written, it sounds like it's a deal they've come to with Midwestern on the pledge, but who knows??
Remember NNPC saying they are aiming to clear these JV cash calls by April 2018 (the anniversary of the first payment) and Eroton are close to the front of the queue. Good to see they've started paying Eroton now.
Look what happened with KOD though. I lost track of due diligence and completion date delays there. It's pretty much standard unfortunately, particularly with Chinese bidders. I don't know why they feel the need to give target dates in the first place to be honest. It's nowhere near the initial dates given most of the time.
A bit of an odd one. I don't know much about ING, but can't see them trading too many other AIM shares. Must be more to it, you'd think. I guess we'll have to wait and see if they continue to buy. Large late trades today maybe???
The way those trades were reported reminds me of how the Tosca trades were reported when they were buying loads a few months ago. Effectively picking them up off directly from an II seller (so one is a buy and the other is a sell). We'll see. Probably by the end of tomorrow if it is them.