Nasdaq Announces 'Private Market'

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Nate Weisshaar

Published in Investing Strategy on 8 March 2013

VIDEO: Two Fools discuss the joint-venture that will allow shares to be traded in private company shares.

In this video, Owain Bennallack and Nate Weisshaar talk about the joint-venture proposed by Nasdaq and SharesPost that lets "sophisticated investors" trade shares in companies before they are listed publicly.

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TMFMarkRogers88 08 Mar 2013 , 3:30pm

This is an interesting idea, I think there was talk recently about something similar on the London market for small companies. "Less regulation than AIM" was the quote I heard, if there was ever a phrase to send a chill down an investor's spine!

It's an interesting direction we seem to be going in, with the recent discussion about making AIM shares ISA-able too. We hear a lot about new companies finding it hard to get access to capital in the form of bank loans, so there are understandably mixed feelings about offering investors the chance to "fill the gap".

The danger meanwhile seems to be similar to the argument about allowing AIM shares in ISAs - will this lead to new business ventures getting access to the capital they need, or to increased speculation in AIM's most popular offerings... resource mining/exploration opportunities?

Think it could be an interesting debate over the next couple of years!

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