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Seven ways to tell whether a private equity-backed IPO should be avoided

  • Written by Mark Humphery-Jenner, Associate Professor of Finance, UNSW Australia
imagePrivate equity IPOs can over-perform for investors.Image sourced from www.shutterstock.com

Private equity-backed IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) have come under significant scrutiny following several high-profile failures: but are these representative or merely anomalous blights on an otherwise well-performing sector?

Last week, the proposed...

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