RE: result8 Dec 2016 09:29
Overman, money helps but you are right all the trappings of our material world don't make you happy. I know many intelligent people that don't conform and live very happily on a small income.
As far as skulduggery the Bentley field was all about funding, timing in respect of the POO, AIM and unfortunately mistakes by BOD and DECC. There are any investors, including myself that were/are invested in XEL hoping to make their fortune. Unfortunately AIM is full of sapling companies that fail and full of gamblers that play the odds that they will fail. It's a sad indictment that we promote failure rather than opportunities.
Back in 2011 when the SP was at it's peak, maybe, mistakes were made then instead of the false optimism that the SP could double or treble, then we had the disaster of the interim P2 results and the subsequent costly EWT. Since it was the shareholder that paid for that the OGA could have done more to help the company once the POO fell. After all revenue from the NS has propped up many govts in the past and they could do with returning the favour.
We splashed billions into the finance industry back in 2008 as the UK's portfolio is heavily weighed in favour of the finance industry. Unfortunately we might loose that due to Brexit, we could have done with putting more into other industries.