Alternative Investment Market

British  

noun

1.  AIM.  a market on the London Stock Exchange enabling small companies to raise capital and have their shares traded in a market without the expenses of a main-market listing

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Example Sentences

Shares in Rainbow Rare Earths, which is listed on London’s alternative investment market, jumped nearly 15% on Wednesday amid fresh trade threats, while China Rare Earth Holdings ended the day up 24% in Hong Kong.

From The Guardian

Prof Cronin is also the founding scientific director of the DeepMatter Group which is listed on London's Alternative Investment Market.

From BBC

Aim - or the Alternative Investment Market, as it be used to called - is designed to give small companies which cannot afford the full costs of a market listing access to public funds.

From BBC

The inflated value of AssetCo, whose main customers were the London and Lincolnshire fire services, and which had a listing on the Alternative Investment Market, had been achieved by the exaggeration of its assets and by inventing sources of income.

From BBC

It is expected to start selling shares on London's Alternative Investment Market in April 2017.

From BBC