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Initial Public Offerings – A Risky Reward When a private company decides to go public and list through an Initial Public Offering (IPO), many investors salivate at the prospect of turning water into wine – a risk vs. reward decision that can either be extremely lucrative or a devasting disaster. IPO’s – What are they An Initial Public Offering occurs when a private company decides to list on the stock market as a public company. Their reasons for this are mostly always the same – to raise more capital in order to fuel growth and expansion. When a company decides to IPO, the stock price initially set based on their expected future earnings along with the number of shares they plan to issue – often accompanied by a large investment bank throughout the entire process. Turning water into wine The million dollar decision – which IPO is going to make you a fortune and which one is going to be a disaster. With IPO’s, you either get it really right or you get it really

Where it all began A good place to start would be to dial back the clock somewhat 9-10 months ago, the market was in anarchy as cases of the Coronavirus were wreaking havoc and the economy essentially shutting down. When the pandemic first hit, no one really knew what to expect and so we saw somewhat of a log jam in commodity prices. As host Andrew Baxter describes, the best example of this was oil when prices went negative. Yes, you read that correctly – negative oil prices. When a commodity is bought to be used and stored, yet no one is using it – people were actually being paid to hold oil, creating ‘negative’ prices. This had never been seen before in history and is a true representation of just how much of an impact the pandemic had on financial markets; not to mention the impact it had on other commodities like copper and iron ore. More on oil – a bell ringer Since returning to travel (domestically) and everyone now back driving to work the need for oil has und