Alternative Investments for Private Investors: When They Make Sense
Alternative investments are assets beyond public stocks and bonds: private equity, venture capital, real estate, infrastructure, and other niches. They are v...
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Alternative investments are assets beyond public stocks and bonds: private equity, venture capital, real estate, infrastructure, and other niches. They are v...
High risk assets can provide strong returns, but only if they occupy a small and meaningful portion of the portfolio. The problem is usually not the risk its...
Direct listing is an entry to the stock exchange without the classic placement of new shares. The company does not raise additional capital, but simply makes...
A SPAC is a shell company that raises capital for a future deal with a real business. Unlike a classic IPO, here first there is an instrument, and only then ...
IPO allocation is the distribution of shares among investors before listing. In practice, this means that demand is almost always higher than supply, which m...
The lock-up period is the timeframe after an IPO during which insiders and early investors cannot freely sell shares. For the market, this serves as an impor...
Red flags in Pre IPO are not only poor financial performance. Most often, a red flag appears where the presentation looks too smooth, and the data in differe...
The upcoming IPO should be analyzed not as good news, but as a deal with a specific entry logic. It is important to understand whether the company has growth...
The IPO price isn't formed in a vacuum: it's influenced by institutional investor demand, roadshow quality, comparable companies, and overall market sentimen...
The IPO price is not determined in a vacuum: it is influenced by demand from institutional investors, the quality of roadshows, comparable companies and the ...
Revenue and growth are two basic signals, but you need to look at them together, not separately. A fast growing company with poor earnings quality may underp...
Primary market is a transaction directly with a company or issuer, and secondary is the purchase of an existing package from the current owner. The differenc...