Dowgate Capital (DGT) are sitting in the middle of a goldmine! This company through their sole trading arm City Financial Associates are looking to take full advantage of the "booming" AIM market this year. Dowgate provide NOMAD (NOMinated ADvisor) services to AIM companies and also have full Corporate Broker status which means that they can fund placements on behalf of the companies they represent.

Website: www.cityfin.co.uk

On first sight, the fact that Dowgate exist in the often veiled financial services sector makes you think twice about investing in company such as this because it would be impossible to understand what they were doing - however, think again! DGT bring new companies to the AIM (Alternative Investment Market). For each new company "floated" on AIM, they take arrangement fees when acting as NOMAD. After the company is launched then for a nice steady earner DGT get another healthy chunk of cash every year for looking after them (note that all AIM companies must have a nominated adviser - thereby securing a ready source of recurring income). Because DGT also act as a Corporate broker they can get a very healthy percentage for arranging placement of shares with insititutions before a new company floats. In addition, because placements come outside the sphere of yearly NOMAD work, they can also gain healthy percentages of placements which companies may need to make throughout the year when they need a quick injection of cash to speed growth. Current NOMADships: 28 companies represented (gives recurring income of approx 480,000 per year) Current on-going Brokerage agreements: 19 companies (income depends on placements) For flotations, depending on the size of a company, fees charged will be anything from 50,000 to 100,000+ For placements (the real earner), DGT get anything from 3% to around 12% of the TOTAL AMOUNT RAISED - For example a new company raising 3M though a placement will earn DGT anything from 90,000 to 360,000 ! These figures are indicative as actual deals all differ due to circumstances and DGT sometimes take payment in shares - they still have a tasty chunk of Setstone shares and when this Russian exploration company comes back to AIM, predictions are that the share price will rocket. Note that the amount that this little company can earn in fees is huge and every new deal that comes through we know will contribute another healthy chunk into the bottom line. The good news with every new floatation means that it's another chunk of recurring revenue which could go on for years, with DGT having to do very little. New clients gained in 2005 are: Mediazest (NOMAD & broker) Elite Strategies (NOMAD) Process Handling (NOMAD) Poland Investment Fund (NOMAD) Nanotech Energy (NOMAD & broker) Archimedia Ventures (NOMAD & broker) Red Leopard Holdings (NOMAD) Alba Mineral Resources (NOMAD & broker) Intandem Films (NOMAD & broker) Motive Television (NOMAD) IncaGold (NOMAD) Sportswinbet (NOMAD & Broker) Infoscreen Networks (NOMAD & Broker) Mark Kingsley (NOMAD & Broker) Croatia Ventures (NOMAD & Broker) Pantheon Leisure (NOMAD) Firenze Ventures (Ofex Advisor) FlightStore Group (NOMAD & Broker) Euro Capital Projects (NOMAD) Pearl Street Holdings (NOMAD) Worldwide Natural Resources (Ofex Advisor) Dovedale Ventures (Ofex Advisor) Other 2005 work completed:Neptune-Calculus VCT offer for subs of up to 12 million Advisory work for TGM on London Bus disposal for 20.4M Advisory work for Creightons on property disposal Advisory work for Hampton Trust on company restructuring Advisory work for Interbulk Investments on acquisition of Inbulk Advisory work for Fundamental-e Investments on two disposals Advisory work for Designer Vision re: Design Rights against Centurion Electronics Click Here for fundamentals and profit projections.

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Eric; SDog: are you guys still checking in ?

hi does anyone know of a website for Ril?

Still here - bit bored with this one, although continue to hold well overweight. Haven't kept up my income projections, so have to wait and see at results time. Not sure they have made as many deals or as much money in H2 and I never got round to asking TR if the bus group disposal fees might have been delayed to H2, instead of H1 where I had them. That would be a big plus if true.

Intrigued by RIL's ambitions and somewhat nervous that so much business still comes via Griffin. Anyone know if there is any connection between RIL and Griffin?

sd

sd,
I asked the question some time back but got no response, so I suppose there isn`t ?? as you say though, intriguing liaison and no sure motive evident at present, as they haven`t brought any of their companies to market through DGT as yet,. I don`t think anyway !!

Stockdog, sounds like you're on a bit of a downer with these at the moment. If my memory serves me right we've had one admission to AIM, with one to come, three admissions to Ofex and six smaller bits of work. That's probably more than in the whole of 2002.

Not a bad H2 to follow on from the exceptional H1. Surely must be near break even for the second half and then there's the question of the bus disposal as you mentioned.

Perhaps if someone could clarify that point with TR.

Paulo2

agree with you there. I think ofex is going to be the a focus of further expansion for DGT.

dont know a lot about charts but very tight grouping now on all of the indicators, this can only be a good thing surely, previously on other stocks tight bollinger bands tend to indicate a movement in some direction.
Any Chartists care to help me out here
Stevie

Stevie

Always difficult to tell with small caps as the spread often distorts the true picture, particularly true in the case of DGT where we see anything from 4 - 15%. Often an an increase / decrease in the daily SP is just a reflection of the spread. However, I am reasonably comfortable with the TA, but would like to see the 25MA turn upwards, which would then reflect a positive MACD. All seems a bit flat at the moment. Still think that RIL will continue to build their stake and will be very surprised if they don't have to start paying an increased premium for that stock, which 'should' provide the required impetus. Surely, they have swept up all the cheap stock now? Mind you there seem to be an awful lot of investors out there who appear ignorant of RIL and what impact their buying would have on the SP if they were to just hang on and stop making it easy for them!!

pth

No connection bt AV and Griffin.

Nanotech Energy Plc ('Nano' or the 'Company')

Temporary suspension

The Board of the Company announces that Adam Rodney Collins and Robert William
Long (the 'New Directors') have today been appointed directors of the Company.

Adam Rodney Collins, Executive Director

Mr Collins has held a number of senior positions in corporate finance and
private industry and has extensive experience in financial structuring, capital
raising and regulatory compliance. Mr Collins is currently a director of Impact
Funding UK Limited.

Robert William Long, Executive Director

Mr Long is currently the Operations Director and Chairman of Veras Plc, and
Veras Funding Solutions Limited. Veras is an OFT licensed credit and FSA
authorised insurance broker specialising in the provision of litigation funding
and insurance solutions to the legal profession.

Stephen Dean, Vincent Nicholls and Jim McColl (the existing board of directors)
have today resigned as directors of the Company.

The New Directors have identified an opportunity for the Company in the
financial services sector. The opportunity involves the acquisition of a
company that is involved in the funding of personal loans arising from legal
litigation disbursement funding, matrimonial disputes, and deceased estates.

The contemplated transaction and the proposed change of investing strategy will
constitute a 'Reverse Transaction' under the AIM Rules therefore the New Board
has requested that the shares of the Company are suspended from trading on AIM
until such time a readmission document is posted to shareholders and
shareholder approval given in relation to the proposed transaction.

Under the terms of the Corporate Service Agreement between the Company and
Griffin Corporate Finance Limited, Griffin Corporate Finance Limited has agreed
to provide various corporate finance services to Nano, including directors
services, general management services and the introduction of corporate finance
opportunities. Griffin Corporate Finance Limited introduced the New Directors
to Nano. In consideration for this service Robert Long has agreed to pay
Griffin Corporate Limited a fee of 150,000. There is no resulting cost to Nano
as a result of this payment.

Griffin Corporate Finance Limited under the AIM Rules is an 'associate' of
Stephen Dean and Vincent Nicholls, both directors of the Company, and therefore
the payment made to Griffin Corporate Finance Limited under the AIM Rules is
deemed to be a 'related party' transaction pursuant to the AIM Rules.
Accordingly, the terms of the payment have been reviewed by Jim McColl, an
independent director of the Company, who after consultation with the Company's
Nominated Adviser (City Financial Associates Limited) believes the terms of the
payment to be fair and reasonable insofar as the shareholders of the Company
are concerned.

Save as disclosed below, there are no further details required to be disclosed
pursuant to schedule 2(g) of the AIM rules.

Adam Rodney Collins, Age 32

Other Directorships Currently Held Former Directorships Held Within
Last 5 Years

Impact Funding UK Limited Busy Time Pty Ltd

Impact Funding Limited Cabco (Queensland) Pty Ltd

Australian Lawyer Magazines Pty Capital Equity Group Pty Ltd
Ltimited

Falcon Waterfree Technologies Pty
Ltd

Falcon Waterfree Technologies
Australia Pty Ltd

Falcon Waterfree Systems Pty Ltd

Mainsail Pacific Holdings Pty Ltd

Q.A. Automotive Pty Ltd

Top Tier Investments Pty Ltd

Waterless South Pacific Pty Ltd


Robert William Long, Age 47

Other Directorships Currently Former Directorships Held Within Last 5
Held Years

Veras Plc R.W. Salt Communications Limited

Veras Funding Solutions R W Salt Limited
Limited

Advanced Fluid Connections Plc (formerly
Oysterec Plc)

Cyprotex Discovery Limited

Cyprotex Plc

Fedsig One Limited

Life Safety Communications Limited

Akusta IFE Limited

Fedsig Two Limited

Fedsig Three Limited

Federal Signal Limited

GL Communications International Limited

Prestek Limited

Galileo Innovations Plc

Sense-Sonic Limited

I'll bet this little share is feeling very unloved on this website, right before Christmas and all.

Stockdog, is there any chance you had a look at those figures? Sorry to ask, mate, but I'm a wordsmith and not a mathematician.

Paulo2 - sorry, 14 hours a day at the day job currently is enough fun - so my portfolio lies rather neglected - now officially all classed as long term holdings, so I don't feel guilty about not following them every day!

May have a look over the tholiday period - roll on December 22nd!

sd

well this board has certainly died, not a post for 8 days.

has everyone gone on a long Xmas break early?

at present you can,
buy 1M @ 0.44p
sell 37.5k @ 0.4p

I see there are another 1M of sells today so AV can buy yet another 1M dirt cheap if they still want them.

ppl have looked at other ppl opinions and decided

sym are a better offer

imho of course

What the heck is going on with DGT?

MM'S fucking around.
Merry bloody xmas

interesting insight....thanks Ted. merry xmas

Sorry dude but this share really
fustrates me.

same goes matie, we are not alone check out the advfn feed!