Private UK investors barred from IPOs

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By David Walker The UK lags far behind other developed countries both on the Continent and across...

By David Walker The UK lags far behind other developed countries both on the Continent and across the Atlantic in providing access to market flotations to private investors, according to Mark Stacpoole from EO.net. Stacpoole said private investors were more likely to support a company whose shares they bought at flotation purchasing, on average, three more of the company's shares after the flotation for every one they bought in the IPO. But 75% of flotations remained solely an institutional-investor affair. He said the government had realised the important of offering flotations to the ...

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