Are initial public offerings (IPOs) worthwhile investments?

• Main Authors: Chan, Catherine Poh Peng, Neo, Frank Gim Lin, Soh, Leonard Kok Beng
• Other Authors: Tan Kai Guan, Clement
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Business
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/55486
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Our research seeks to test the popular belief that initial public offerings (IPOs) can generate abnormal returns with the help of data from past IPOs (i.e. are IPOs worthwhile investments?). This is done by trying to identify factors that might lead to a worthwhile investment in IPOs. The factors be...