Why has it been so hard for individual investors, sometimes referred to as retail investors, to purchase IPOs?
Investment banks that underwrite IPO’s have been eliminating their retail brokers along with their smaller customers for many years. Working with Retail Investors externally has proven to be very difficult and expensive for Investment Banks. Since there has not been a viable way, until now, to allocate shares to retail investors, most of the retail allocation for IPOs has been going to professional IPO flippers. These flippers will sell IPO shares within days or even minutes of the Offering going public, which causes downward pressure on the share price. ClickIPO has created a viable technology solution to allocate shares to retail investors that utilize a buy and hold strategy, eliminating flippers from the process.
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Individual Investor
A user of the ClickIPO app, usually with the intention of following and/or investing in public offerings. Also referred to as "Retail Investor".
Why do investors invest in IPOs?
All investors have different strategies and we do not make any investment recomendations. However, an IPO is an opportunity to make a ground floor investment at the IPO price which is attractive to investors if they like the long term prospects of ...
Retail Investor
This is typically an individual who invests his or her own money in stocks, bonds, real estate, and other investment types.
Are all IPOs available to order? When will "X" IPO be available to order?
Not all offerings are available to order. While we do list all offerings, please keep in mind that allocations are never guaranteed. If we expect to receive an allocation from the Underwriter in an offering we will make it available to order on the ...
How does ClickIPO work?
ClickIPO is a mobile-based IPO and Secondary Offering order entry platform and research tool designed for Retail Investors. We make it easy for Retail Investors at any Broker-Dealer to purchase any Offering. We aggregate Retail Investor orders by ...