IPO: average underpricing, average initial return, risk of investing in IPOs
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a. What is the average under pricing of this sample of IPOs?
b. What is the average initial return on my "portfolio" of shares purchased from the four IPOs I bid on?
Calculate the average initial return weighting by the amount of money invested in each issue.
c. Why have I performed so poorly relative to the average initial return on the full sample of IPOs? What lessons do you draw from my experience?
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