IPO

Peter McKellar, coordinating partner and CIO of SL Capital Partners and manager of the Standard Life European Private Equity trust, on the prospects for this unloved sector.

Facebook will permanently stop trading of its stock on private secondary markets at the end of this week ahead of its initial public offering in May, the FT reports.

Franklin Templeton's emerging market heavyweight Mark Mobius has blamed the flood of initial public offerings (IPOs) in emerging markets during 2010 for EM stocks' underperformance last year.

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The company that controls the Empire State Building has revealed plans to raise as much as $1bn in an initial public offering, and become a real estate investment trust.

The upcoming flotation of the social networking site is gaining plenty of column inches but should you be backing its IPO? Here industry experts reveal whether it is really worth all the hype.

Facebook's value rose to $123bn in grey trading yesterday as it prepares for a $5bn float later this year.

Facebook's long-anticipated initial public offering will see it look to raise $5bn in a listing expected to value the company at up to $100bn.

BlueCrest Capital is to list a feeder fund for its BlueTrend strategy, a systematic fund that trades across 150 global markets, on the London Stock Exchange this March.

Social networking giant Facebook is set to begin the process of becoming a publicly listed company this week, with reported valuations of between $75bn (£48bn) and $100bn dwarfing Google's $1.9bn IPO in 2004.