Secondary Recommendation

Internet Business Group - On-line advertising play

March 2005

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Shares in former internet incubator, Internet Business Group (IBG), may seem like an odd candidate for momentum investing but the reason for their recent strong performance lies in IBG's remarkable three-year transformation into an on-line advertising services business. With the likes of Google and Yahoo reporting huge surges in on-line advertising spend, investors are now hunting for anything remotely connected to this red-hot sector and IBG fits the bill nicely. After floating at the tail-end of the dot com boom, it didn't take long for IBG to realise that its model of providing web design, software engineering, and other incubation services for start-up firms in return for sweat equity was never going to work onc ...

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