Final Results Due In March 2005.

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One of City Financial Associates (CFP's) main operating goals is to bring fledgling companies to the market. With the depressed stock market over the last few years many potential clients have deffered entry to the LSE. Markets have now turned and the reality of a sucession of new floatations is growing. CFP are well positioned to enjoy the rewards that will be benefited to them in this growing market place.

Why the EXCITEMENT - will here are the reasons why I think we're on a winner.

1) My motto is when it's comes to investing there are three things. Management, management and management. With any good investment - the management should be the driving force in a company. Can they cut the mustard, are they dynamic, do they have good contacts? I think so if you read the following profile.

Stephen Barclay, Executive Chairman

Stephen Barclay, aged 61, qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1964 with Robson Rhodes before obtaining an MBA degree from Wharton Business School in 1967. In 1989, after a career during which he reorganised various companies, he established City Financial Associates Plc (formerly Clifton Financial Associates Plc) to provide corporate finance advice to small to medium sized private and public companies. In August 1998, City Financial Associates Plc was purchased by Talisman House Plc (now Seymour Pierce Group Plc) where he became group executive chairman. In December 1998, Talisman House Plc purchased an institutional stockbroker, Seymour Pierce Limited, where he became executive chairman. He resigned as a director of Seymour Pierce Group Plc and various other group companies at the end of March 2001 to found CFA Capital Group Plc. He is a director of a number of public companies including MICE Group Plc and Talisman First Venture Capital Trust Plc and is a governor of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

John Shaw, Executive Director

John Shaw, aged 54, qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1975 with Touche Ross & Co in London. Subsequently he spent two years seconded to the Quotations Department of the London Stock Exchange returning to Touche Ross & Co to join the Corporate Finance Group until 1982. After a period as a sole practitioner, he joined Chase Investment Bank Limited in 1985, was appointed a director and founded the Equity Investment Group, formed to invest in unquoted companies. In 1990 he joined Henry Ansbacher & Co Limited as an Assistant Director of Corporate Finance. He started working with City Financial Associates Plc in early 1995 and was appointed a director in December 1996. He was appointed a director of Seymour Pierce Limited in December 1998 where he was initially Head of Corporate Finance and latterly Head of Private Equity. He resigned from Seymour Pierce Limited and various other group companies at the end of March 2001 to found CFA Capital Group Plc.

2) They have turned a 2 million loss into nearly a profit if you ignore costs for discontinuing operations - that some turn around.

3) With only small market capital of 3.83M it's feasible to suggest they could make a good profit this year as they have already got off to a good start signing more clients.

A profit of half million would give a pe ratio of 7.66

1 million a pe ratio of 3.83

1.5 million a pe ratio of 2.55

2 million a pe ratio of 1.91.

So it would only take a small profit to make this company super undervalued. Consider the possibility they could achieve a 2 million profit this year, which is the least, I expect, we could be looking at a share price of 7p. YES THAT'S 7P (An average p/e for the sector is 16.) Even with a profit of only 1 million that's still an upside of 3.5p.

3) Consider the fact that some of their clients pay their fee by way of giving large share holdings to CFP. All it would take is two or three creamy companies to give them valuable portfolio holding which they could cash in at a substantial return.

4) The IPO is sector has already increased three fold this year. More and more companies are coming into AIM and from abroad then ever before. Rules have changed where foreign companies can use a fast track scheme to get on board more quickly then ever before. I'm sure CFA Associates are well positioned to benefit with this increase in volume.

5) We could see a re-rating this year in this sector, which would be the cherry on the top.

I rest my case, to me this is a no brainer unless you want to wait for the next results for proof they have achieved profitability. If that's your cautious approach, fine but by then, you can then expect a much higher share price then now.

Major Shareholdings:
Stephen John Barclay 64,600,000 11.66%
Pershing Keen Noms Ltd 49,610,000 8.95%
John Richard Shaw 29,400,000 5.31%

RNS Number:9414C
CFA Capital Group PLC
15 September 2004

CFA Capital Group plc
Interim results for the 6 months ended 30 June 2004
CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT

Highlights

* Nominated Adviser to 20 AIM companies - broker to 15 AIM companies

* Currently handling a number of AIM flotations and other major transactions

* Strong second-half order book - solid outlook for year

* Turnover for the period up 95% to #510,000 (6 months to 30 June 2003:
#262,000 from continuing operations)

* Losses before taxation of #58,000, (loss 6 months to 30 June 2003:
#208,000 from continuing operations)

* Currently recruiting to further strengthen team

Introduction
I am pleased to announce that CFA is now retained as Nominated Adviser to 20 AIM
companies and broker to 16 AIM companies. The company is currently working on a
number of AIM flotations and other major transactions, and as such has built a
strong order book for the second half of 2004. The fees generated by this
activity, taken together with our underlying retainer income and largely-fixed
overhead base, leaves us well-positioned for a satisfactory outcome to the year
as a whole.

Sharply reduced losses for the first half were achieved even though we had to
incur costs on two flotations that were not completed until July 2004 which
generated revenues of #225,000. These revenues were not recognised in the
results to 30 June 2004.

Turnover for the period nonetheless increased 95% to #510,000 (6 months to 30
June 2003: #262,000 from continuing operations), with losses before taxation of
#58,000 showing a marked improvement from #208,000 (6 months to June 2003 -
continuing operations).

Following the sale of CFA Securities Limited in 2003, CFA is now firmly focused
on servicing the needs of clients who are essentially AIM listed companies run
by entrepreneurs. We now have a team of eight, comprising executives and support
staff, providing corporate finance and broking advice. We are in the process of
recruiting further executives to join the team. This recruitment will ensure
client service levels are maintained as we meet the increasing demand for our
services.

In accordance with my statement on the results for the year to 31 December 2003,
CFA started the beginning of 2004 with a good pipeline of work and with a degree
of optimism that market conditions would enable these deals to be completed and
this was the case in the first quarter to 31 March 2004. However, in the second
quarter, in a number of cases transactions that we anticipated completing in the
first half have either been completed since the end of June or have been
deferred. This adversely affected our earlier expectations of financial
performance in the first half of the year.

Financial review
Despite these factors CFA achieved a creditable result in the first half.
Turnover was #510,000 (6 months ended 30 June 2003: #262,000 from continuing
operations), overheads (including plc running costs) were #609,000 (2003:
#458,000 on continuing operations) and the loss before taxation for the period
was #58,000 (6 months ended 2003: loss #208,000).

These results need to be seen in the context of our having completed the
flotation of Smallbone plc (admitted to AIM on 26 July) and Ragusa Capital plc
(admitted to AIM on 15 July). No income is taken into account in the period in
respect of these transactions, although a significant amount of the costs
relating to these flotations were incurred in the period.

CFA is now retained as Nominated Adviser to 20 AIM companies and retained Broker
to AIM 15 companies. Annualised recurring income currently totals over #340,000
representing approximately 30 per cent of total budgeted group costs, and we
anticipate that our level of retainers and this source of revenue will show a
significant increase by the year end. Our increasing base of retained clients
not only provides a source of recurring revenue but is also a prime source of
transactions.

On 27 May 2004 we announced a placing of 65 million new ordinary shares at a
price of 0.7p per share, to raise #441,340 net of expenses. As at 31 December
2003 the net assets of CFA Capital Group plc were #534,000. The impact of the
placing and the small loss in the period, has been to increase the Group's net
worth as at 30 June 2004 to #914,000, creating a sound financial base.

Current trading
We currently have a strong order book both in respect of a number of AIM
flotations and other transactions partially arising through our existing client
base. On the basis that we complete a good number of these transactions, we
anticipate a satisfactory outcome for the year as a whole.

Summary
On 31 July 2004, John Shaw stood down as a Director of CFA Capital Group plc and
all Group companies. John has worked with me for over 10 years and was a founder
shareholder of the Company in 2001. The Board thanks John for his significant
contribution and wishes him well for the future.

The Board also extends its thanks to the entire team for their efforts so far
this year.

Can only buy 220k at 0.63p but SELL 1.5mil,I wonder why:)

A few nervous sells today!

What is needed is more COC (Courage of Convictions)! Just look at BNH flying away; that will be CFP in the New Year.

Eric

on line very tight 2% spread

buy 0.56p 750k
sell 0.55p 150k

Eric
Interesting comparison between BNH and CFP as the same strategies apply.
You can see the attraction for many IFA's and small insurance enterprises to subscribe to BNH services purely as a result of avoiding legal minefield of FSA regulations coming into force Jan '05.
If CFP were in the same ball park, shouldn't we have seen major subscription to their client portfolio over recent months?
Forgive me if this seems a little naive, but I will admit to being a novice in research area.

Interesting to see a sharp turn upwards in buying volume today - does someone know something that we don't ?

overgrowth

Volume somewhat better but not really up to average levels. Demonstrates that price should respond quite quickly to any volume as with BNH. 2 or 3 days with 5 million shares would be more convincing - only 30K but suspect the market would move ahead quite rapidly.

corehard

I take your point about BNH which doesn't really apply to CFP. What does seem to be parallel is their position in an emerging market. Companies coming to AIM need the expertise of someone like CFP. We know that they are working their socks off and I suspect that they are earning quite a lot of money. It may be that it is not all booked again as with the interims, which I see has caused far too big a problem with the share price. Here the parallel is more with CYH where people have been put off with a change to a more conservative share policy. It seems to me that WIP, if you like to call it that, should be notionally credited to avoid such pessimism. I believe that, in both cases, there is a buying opportunity.

Eric

Get ready for the big push imo,a lot of weak holders have gone lets hope we get our just rewards:)

Eric - still a sharp upturn from almost zero lol! Though I agree with your comments.

Eric

Thanks for the insight !

eric, was that you in the letters page of shares mag?

bosley

Modesty forbids - yes, have to confess three in six weeks; firstly on PET then two on YOO, essentially on behalf of the YOO bb. I'm bidding for a regular column! lol!

Eric

more cheese anyone

CFP doing well again......they certainly took on board the comments tyhat they need to communicate betteerr with the city!! I wonder i they can take the price negative? It could be a first ever!!!

Following the usual pattern-they should bounce back up this afternoon. All this waiting and hoping the results had better be good for March!

From advfn bb

Tony14 - 14 Dec'04 - 08:36 - 2810 of 2815

Ah ha, a Schedule 1!

AIM
14 December 2004

ANNOUNCEMENT TO BE MADE BY AIM APPLICANT AT LEAST 10 BUSINESS DAYS PRIOR TO ADMISSION

ALL APPLICANTS MUST COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING:

COMPANY NAME: INTERBULK INVESTMENTS PLC

COMPANY ADDRESS and Registered Office:

HILDEN PARK HOUSE
79 TONBRIDGE ROAD
HILDENBOROUGH
KENT

COMPANY POSTCODE: TN22 9BL

COUNTRY OF INCORPORATION: ENGLAND

COMPANY BUSINESS:

TO ACQUIRE INTERESTS IN PRIVATE AND QUOTED ENGINEERING BUSINESSES


DETAILS OF SECURITIES TO BE ADMITTED (i.e. where known, number of shares, nominal value and issue price):

60,000,000 ORDINARY SHARES OF 1 PENNY NOMINAL VALUE AT 3 PENCE PER SHARE


CAPITAL TO BE RAISED ON ADMISSION:

900,000



FULL NAMES AND FUNCTIONS OF DIRECTORS AND PROPOSED DIRECTORS:

STEPHEN DEAN, CHAIRMAN

VINCENT WILLIAM NICHOLLS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

WILLIAM JOHN THOMSON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR


PERSON(S) INTERESTED IN 3% OR MORE OF THE ISSUER'S CAPITAL, EXPRESSED AS A PERCENTAGE OF THE ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL
STATING WHETHER BEFORE OR AFTER ADMISSION:

BEFORE ADMISSION:

GRIFFIN SECURITIES (UK) LIMITED

AFTER ADMISSION:

DETAILS TO FOLLOW

NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF ALL PERSONS TO BE DISCLOSED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SCHEDULE 2, PARAGRAPH (G) OF THE AIM RULES.

DETAILS TO FOLLOW

ANTICIPATED ACCOUNTING REFERENCE DATE: 31 DECEMBER

EXPECTED ADMISSION DATE: 30 DECEMBER 2004

NAME AND ADDRESS OF NOMINATED ADVISER:

CITY FINANCIAL ASSOCIATES LIMITED
POUNTNEY HILL HOUSE
6 LAURENCE POUNTNEY HILL
LONDON
EC4R 0BL

NAME AND ADDRESS OF BROKER TO THE PLACING:

SEYMOUR PIERCE ELLIS
TALISMAN HOUSE
JUBILEE WALK
THREE BRIDGES
CRAWLEY, WEST SUSSEX
RH10 1LQ


DETAILS OF WHERE (POSTAL OR INTERNET ADDRESS) THE ADMISSION DOCUMENT WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM, WITH A STATEMENT
THAT THIS WILL CONTAIN FULL DETAILS ABOUT THE APPLICANT AND THE ADMISSION OF ITS SECURITIES.

CITY FINANCIAL ASSOCIATES LIMITED
POUNTNEY HILL HOUSE
6 LAURENCE POUTNEY HILL
LONDON
EC4R 0BL


DATE OF NOTIFICATION:

NEW/UPDATE (see note): NEW



LISTED APPLICANTS MUST ALSO COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING:

DETAILS OF THE APPLICANT'S STRATEGY FOLLOWING ADMISSION INCLUDING, IN THE CASE OF AN INVESTING COMPANY, DETAILS
OF ITS INVESTMENT STRATEGY

A DESCRIPTION OF ANY SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN FINANCIAL OR TRADING POSITION OF THE APPLICANT, WHICH HAS OCCURRED
SINCE THE END OF THE LAST FINANCIAL PERIOD FOR WHICH AUDITED STATEMENTS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED OR AN APPROPRIATE
NEGATIVE STATEMENT

A STATEMENT THAT THE DIRECTORS OF THE APPLICANT HAVE NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT ITS WORKING CAPITAL WILL BE
INSUFFICIENT FOR AT LEAST TWELVE MONTHS FROM THE DATE OF ITS ADMISSION

DETAILS OF ANY LOCK-IN ARRANGEMENTS PURSUANT TO RULE 7 OF THE AIM RULES.



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Interesting that CFP are using Seymour Pearce as brokers. Why not do it themselves? Too busy?

Eric

well nothing then two on the bounce
bring on tommorrow

and if companies wish there inhouse news to remain private till they need to let it out
good on cfp for keeping it like that

shows this little gem can be trusted

and lets face it trust is 99% of the financial game imho

may drive us shareholders nutty but at least otheir ppl will be looking and thats good buissness

the dead

One more to come before come before christmas methinks!!

I still am concerned , why cant others see the lightening thats about to strike!This share has been performing like a turkey( apt for time of year) will not be able to buy a bag of sweeties with whats left soon!!