AIM Comment

Cleantech comings and goings on AIM

Wednesday, 10 November 2010 15:57

There are signs of life in the new issues market for London’s Alternative Investment Market, with two cleantech companies choosing to float last month, However, the sector as whole is set to get smaller with the loss of two of the biggest AIM cleantech companies.

AIM: the launch pad for India’s growth energy stocks

Thursday, 07 October 2010 19:46

India is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world - and that means demand for electricity is also growing rapidly. The country has experienced power shortages for some time and an enormous amount of investment is required to develop new generating capacity.

Clean transport’s torrid time on AIM

Sunday, 05 September 2010 18:53

by Andrew Hore

Transport has always been a high profile part of the cleantech sector, but it has been one of the poorer performing sub-sectors on London’s Alternative Investment Market, particularly during the past year.

Transport as a sub-sector has achieved the worst results on Sigma Capital’s Cleantech index of companies on AIM, having lost one-third of its value over the last twelve months. Four of the ten worst-performing cleantech shares in the index are transport-related – and there are only five companies in the transport sub-sector!

AIM’s clean agri-firms

Tuesday, 03 August 2010 21:56

by Andrew Hore

Finding ways of growing more food and making it resistant to pests is important for the whole world. London’s Alternative Investment Market has a sub-sector of cleantech agricultural companies which can help to do this and reduce the use of scarce resources.

The UN estimates that the world’s population will reach 9.2 billion by 2050, 40% higher than at the present time, while food consumption is set to double over the same period.

UK Budget - little cheer for cleantech investors

Tuesday, 06 July 2010 20:32

by Andrew Hore

There was little in the UK’s emergency Budget last month to encourage Alternative Investment Market-quoted cleantech companies. Although the capital gains tax (CGT) change was not as harsh as first feared, there were no additional investment incentives for the sector or for small companies in general. The new coalition Government’s Chancellor confirmed that the Green Investment Bank will go ahead, but it seems likely that this will involve the axing of several funds and government-sponsored bodies, including the Carbon Trust.

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