Secondary Recommendation

Aggressive value investors buy into former Â£1 billion companies

January 2003

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

At first glance Amey, Mytravel and the Big Food group appear to havelittle in common. But all of them once sported a marketvalue of over Â£1 billion, all have had trading and/or accountingsetbacks, but all have risen recently as a number of aggressive activevalue investors have bought stock. Support services group, Amey (28.5p), has been hit by a combination of accounting issues, adifficult trading environment and delays to the closure of keycontracts which sent the shares spiralling to a low of 23.5p. Then persistent buying from Meditor Investment Management,a value fund bankrolled by George Soros, (which holds 14.74%) andSterling Investments, the veh ...

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Greene King

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DRS Data - Date capture group on mend (May 2003)

BPP - Leader in professional training (May 2003)

Alexandra - Another to abandon UK manufacturing (May 2003)

Burndene Investments - Surge in holiday home sales (May 2003)

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Paddy Power - Fast growing bookmaker (April 2003)

Blacks Leisure - Ungeared outdoor sportswear retailer (April 2003)

Aero Inventory - Close to signing big customer (April 2003)

Parkdean Holidays - Acquisitive caravan park owner (April 2003)

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Havelock Europa - Education labes sell well (March 2003)

Cordiant - Break-up could see uplift in value (March 2003)

Edinburgh Oil & Gas - Big discovery in Noth Sea (March 2003)

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Filtronic - Prospective PE of 5.3 for next year (February 2003)

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Medisys - Chief executive buys 2m shares (February 2003)

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Project Telecom (December 2002)

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SSL (November 2002)

Clinton Cards (November 2002)

Hercules Property (November 2002)

Harvey Nash (November 2002)

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HPD Resources - Dirt cheap (October 2002)

Two property plays outperforming their sector (October 2002)

PZ Cussons (October 2002)

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Sectors on the move - September (September 2002)

Management Consulting Group - Sarbanes-Oxley Acts boosts non-audit financial services (September 2002)

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Sectors on the move (August 2002)

Office Photocopier distributors hitting highs (August 2002)

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Associated British Foods - Primark driving expansion (July 2002)

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Lookers - Acquisition hungry car retailer (June 2002)

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TMI Trader Portfolio - June (June 2002)

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Transport Groups Recover (May 2002)

Clothing Retailers continue to shine (May 2002)

TMI Trader Portfolio - May (May 2002)

Market Comment - April (April 2002)

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Deregulation in the gaming industry - Rank and Stanley Leisure in the Limelight (April 2002)

Signet - US superstores driving growth (April 2002)

Daily Mail and General Trust ("A" Shares) - Low risk play on advertising upturn (April 2002)

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With small companies there is an above average degree of risk compared to buying blue chips. Please be aware that we have not assessed the suitability of any of these investments for you. The newsletter simply states a personal view and diarises the editor’s investment decisions. Please speak to your stockbroker or other qualified individual to ascertain whether any of these companies mentioned would form useful additions to your own portfolios. Past performance is no indication of future success.

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Aggressive value investors buy into former Â£1 billion companies

January 2003

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