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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.

NO VOLUME TODAY AT ALLLLL...U DONT THINK THAT HAS HAPPENED BEFORE. NOT A GOOD SIGN

calm before the storm of buys!!

ive heard it all before

those who blink lose

period

imho of course

funny how as soon as the old rumour of results out early buys every where

every day since no movement now im a betting man and i like cards so i aint folding simple

it just seems strange that for months this little gem is moving up and down in a sort of uppy downny way

but as soon as results are due no movement

just makes me wonder if no one is selling because they know results might be better than expected

just mho of course but i will live with it

roll on results and watch this baby sing imho

Everyone is well aware that results are going to be positive thats y i would have thought volume would be higher.

thesaurus - No cause for concern - there were loads of small caps with no volume today if you look around. The normally more active BB's have also been eerily quiet with comments like "anybody there?" etc.

The early birds have already caught CFP, we'll have to wait until after the results for the action to really heat up (unless a sizeble tasty deal is announced in the next few days, that should kick a few buyers into action).

I`m still waiting for some comment or movement concerning link with,or buyout of, Seymour Pierce. Was hoping for some statements prior to interims.

CFP up 13.33 % today and not a single post - where is everybody ?

Overgrowth,

Still here, I was half expecting a few more sells this week, possibly a bit of tree shaking, but today has hopefully put paid to that. Quite a lot of resistance at 0.85-0.90p, if we can get through that level before the results, there may be good momentum before the annoucement and then who knows where?

Good luck

PTH

PTH it would be good to see the sp around the 1p at results time to act as a springboard for the next level (which will come with the bigger deals - hopefully later this year).

Snakey - I still reckon SP is out of the equation, CFP appear to have changed tack from their initial intentions and are concentrating on organic growth instead. This growth will be substantial if they get some large placings in the next few months (this is where they make most of their money - acting as broker for placements). No doubt they'll catch us all on the hop and make a bid for a company tomorrow lol.

A bit of interest today. Looking at the charts, they remain Bullish, so quite a bit more to come, I think.

PTH

Posted by sbl on advfn

Saddam Bin Laden - 4 Sep'04 - 11:54 - 13337 of 13350

Fellow investors of CFA, I have some interesting news.

One of their clients Dinkie Heel has a very exciting future where they will soon be involved as an investment partner in management Buy Out and managmement buy in. There is a bit of a long story here but getting straight to the point I think CFA could be in the process of trying to raise 10 million pounds in order that Dinkie can announce their first deals as they will need new capital. Now if 2.5% is bottom line fees we could expect CFP to make no less then 250K from fees. What I don't know is when this will be confirmed and how much capital will be required but we can be sure the management at CFP are def. cooking something hot and spicy here.

Anyone who subsribes to RHPS will be able to confirm the above and I'm sure this is one of the biggies that SB was refering to in his interview.

Exciting times ahead for CFP. Hang on to your shares.

nice to hear from you slmchow thx for the news

i also hear that there is more news on the way regards more buissness

Have been pretty busy with work but have been looking in when time permits. Not long now hope.

for what slmchow for what
lol

the good times i hear you cryyyyyyyyy

ARE RESULTS COMING IN TOMORROW

I have just phoned the company about the results date and spoke to a nice lady i asked her for the date the results would be coming out and she told me she did not know at this time, she also told me there is a board meeting tomorrow and they may know something after that but that they have until the 30th to bring them out, well we know that already.
I also asked her if we would be pleased with the results but she was very cagey and said she could not comment and we would have to wait fot the announcement.
I did not think i would get any sense out of them but i thought i would try.

WW

How certain are we that results are going to be positive...


List of Pro's and Cons please

I am getting a little miffed at the lack of work they are picking up, look at this new list of new comers and once again no cfp as nomad or advisor.

The New Issues List is a list of all new companies which are either seeking admission to one of our markets or have been admitted to trading within the last seven days. This list provides basic information on the company, terms of the offer and its sponsors.

New Issues

Islamic Bank of Britain plc AIM 12/10/2004 n/a n/a
TV-LOONLAND AG AIM 30/09/2004 n/a n/a
Pittards plc AIM 30/09/2004 n/a n/a
SR Pharma plc AIM 30/09/2004 n/a n/a
European Minerals Corporation (the Corporation) AIM 29/09/2004 n/a n/a
Crucial Plan plc AIM 17/09/2004 n/a n/a
EP&F Capital PLC AIM 15/09/2004 n/a n/a
Tower plc AIM 14/09/2004 n/a n/a
Red Squared Plc AIM 13/09/2004 n/a n/a
Smart Telecom plc AIM 10/09/2004 n/a n/a
Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited AIM 08/09/2004 n/a n/a
Roc Oil Company Limited AIM 06/09/2004 n/a n/a
Leisure & Gaming plc AIM 03/09/2004 n/a n/a
ELKEDRA DIAMONDS NL AIM 03/09/2004 n/a n/a
Frontier Mining Ltd. AIM 02/09/2004 n/a n/a
Business Direct Group Plc AIM 31/08/2004 n/a n/a
Intermodal Resource plc AIM 31/08/2004 n/a n/a
Seashell Group Limited AIM 31/08/2004 n/a n/a
CUBUS LUX PLC AIM 31/08/2004 n/a n/a
BDI Mining Corp AIM n/a n/a n/a

Alittle negative I know. Does anyone know the last company that cfp was nomad or broker for and when was it?

The last work as above Alltrue investments nomad and broker but was back in May? Before that something was coming along every month by the look of it.