initial public offerings

**akula** · 07-30-2006 02:55 AM

hey guys, does anybody here have a good familiarity with ipos?

**Outta Hand** · 07-30-2006 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by akula

hey guys, does anybody here have a good familiarity with ipos?

I've got a friend who knows quite a bit about this sort of thing... feel free to email him and tell him Luc sent you if you are interested at... mikepehlivan[at]hotmail[dot]com

**youngmoneyblog** · 07-30-2006 10:53 AM

what do you need to know?

there is a professor at UF that specializes in this.

**paul2145r** · 07-30-2006 01:17 PM

I have friends that go to UF.. are you from the area?

**youngmoneyblog** · 07-30-2006 02:31 PM

I go to UF, from florida though

**more freedom** · 07-30-2006 05:07 PM

You might want to read this book

The intelligent investor by Ben Graham.

IPO is good for the short run most of the time

**akula** · 07-30-2006 11:41 PM

thanks fellas

i need someone who can model markowitz portfolios

**AJOH** · 07-31-2006 04:59 AM

I've been in on a few, using my company AJOH Investment Corp. What do you need to know mate?

**akula** · 07-31-2006 06:33 AM

Originally Posted by AJOH

I've been in on a few, using my company AJOH Investment Corp. What do you need to know mate?

well, it's like this;

I'm exploring the opportunity for manufacturing and selling a novel financial product.

In other words, I'm looking to raise a global IPO index fund (i.e. an index fund that invests in IPOs across the globe).

The fund size would need to be $500 million up, to force entry into the primary market for unseasoned issues.

Evidence tells me that this product is ideally suited to a large variety of LPs because we can prove an expected alpha (the paper is just getting organised).

What I need is a team to shop this deal around and make an obscene amount of money in the process.

What I need to know is where I can find a good selecting of ambitious quants to do this with me.