Growth markets: Sarbox refugees target Aim

US growth companies faced with the increased cost of listing at home are among foreign issuers seeking a home on London’s junior market.

Perhaps one of the things that Nasdaq finds so attractive about the London Stock Exchange is that the UK market’s junior arm, Aim, reminds it of its youth.

At 35 years old, Nasdaq is starting to show its age and is increasingly losing out to its younger, more vigorous, rival.

With an average market capitalization of $1.13 billion, Nasdaq has become a senior market in all but name. And although more than half of the companies listed on the US exchange have a market capitalization of less than $250 million, larger-cap companies account for 95.5%

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