Shares in RiverFort Global Opportunities (RGO) have recently slipped to 0.85p to buy, though it also has announced a dividend per share of 0.038p which was paid last week

AIM-listed jam-tomorrow IoT investment company Tern (TERN) announced yesterday afternoon that investee Fundamental VR (FVRVS limited) had raised a further £5 million in a second tranche of the Series B fundraise first announced back in May. That seems positive, so why the immediate share price drop in the market?

I am, after all, an expert on divorces and failed marriages. But this one failed even before the two made it to the altar, as Pires Investments (PIRI) shareholders rejected an all share merger with TERN (TERN). I salute them. I look at why this deal failed, the logic behind it for Tern (TERN), viz an escape, the logic for Pires - arguably the right strategy but the wrong target - and where both go from here. I make Pires an offer it should accept, if it is to consider any more M&A activity.

I commented before that the proposed takeover of AIM-listed Pires Investments (PIRI) by AIM-listed jam-tomorrow investment company Tern (TERN) reminded me of Tom Winnifrith’s image of two drunks trying to prop each other up, as neither had any money. Today we learnt that they had fallen over each other and were lying in a heap on Paternoster Square.

Recovering from several lectures on the evils of Brexit, I send you greetings from Frogland this Bank Holiday Thursday. In today's podcast, I look again at the Tern (TERN) - Pires (PIRI) merger. I then discuss three slam-dunk zeros: Kinovo (KINO) - whose shares should be suspended with immediate effect - Versarien (VRS) and Nanosynth (NNN), where the new CEO, Mark Duffin, is a complete clown. If he does a deal in snails, as he suggests, I am a Dutchman. 

AIM-listed jam-tomorrow IoT investment company Tern plc (TERN) has announced a recommended all-share deal to take over AM-listed Pires Investments (PIRI). The fanfare numbers are that Pires investors are getting a 54% premium to the previous closing price, with Tern’s shares priced at 15.5p, but that seems to me to be a spoof. One wonders why Pires' board took the deal…..

I start with Tesla (TSLA) and a mad broker target. I discuss why it is mad and look back to ARM in the year 2000. Then it is onto plans to allow companies to delay results even more. Mentioned en passant here are Pires Holdings (PIRI) and Inspirit (INSP). Finally I turn to the idea of allowing folks to delay filing tax returns and paying tax.

One of these days, folks are going to wake up and realise that it was all a dream, that prices they were paying for shares in some small caps in these early days of January 2021 were plain bonkers. You may think you know better but some of us old fools have seen it all before.

In today’s podcast I look at Powerhouse Energy (PHE), Supply@ME Capital (SYME), Pires Investments (PIRI) and Chris Akers, MyHealthChecked (MHC), Inspirit (INSP), Octagonal (OCT), and Remote Monitored Systems (RMS).

It is not quite in the league of that from Scancell (SCLP) but sub scale investment tidder Pires Investments (PIRI) is also clambering aboard the Covid bandwagon.

I cover this company whose shares were up by 500% at one point today. Does Synairgen (SNG) really sit on a gold mine? I also look at three David Lenigas related situations: Empire Metals (EEE), Pires (PIRI) and UK Oil & Gas (UKOG). With regard to the last of the three, I mention Jubilee Metals (JLP), in which I bought some more shares today. I also discuss the "it's too good to be true" rule ref Amigo (AMGO)

It is kind of sweet. The love big David Lenigas has for his fellow share ramper Chris Akers. Today it is Pires Investments (PIRI) where the dynamic duo are at play. the UK's top rampers of AIM listed dross are at it again.

Peterhouse is the broker, Chris Akers is on board, Dave Lenigas is too and now there is a paid for interview over at ShareTalk. It is almost the perfect cocktail. So what is the collective noun for a group of share rampers> A bluster? A promote? A festering turd? The stock here is Pires Investments (PIRI) and Big Dave has twitter diarrhoea.

On Saturday in my main stage AIM rogues presentation David Lenigas and Chris Akers both featured prominently. Big Dave is a shareholder in Pires Investments (PIRI) a stock that was my tip of the year but where I suggested banking gains as it now trade way above fair value. Chris Akers has today announced that he has taken his stake from 3.1% to 6.1% and Lenigas almost wet himself with excitement as he tried to tweet the news out asap, as you can see below. Caveat emptor:

Pires Investments (PIRI) was our tip of the year at a 2.3p offer on 27 December 2019. Today it has announced it is raising up to £1.65 million at 2p. The shares are 3.5p bid!  Why the premium in the market when many of those taking part will be spivvy share flippers? Simple, uber ramper Chris Akers has taken one third of the placing.

this was our share tip of the year at a 2.3p offer on 27 December, the shares are now 2.85p bid so that is a 24% gain already. But we still see material upside. so here is that original share tip in full...

Continuing my look at the many investment companies on AIM I turn to Pires Investments (PIRI) to look at the costs involved and the oddity of these companies investing solely in listed companies.