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\t\t\t\tAt a Senate Banking Subcommittee hearing last week, the topic of whether retail investors should get more access to IPO information to even out the initial public offering process for both institutional and ordinary investors was discussed. One of the reasons the hearing was called was to look at the issues involving the recent IPO of Facebook (FB), which opened on the Nasdaq a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

There are some who believe that the social networking giant’s underwriters gave favored clients negative material information prior to the offering while leaving other investors out in the cold. Soon after trading began, Facebook shares declined sharply. At the hearing, Securities Subcommittee chairman Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) spoke about the need to make sure that ordinary investors and sophisticated investors are subject to the same rules, including providing everyone with access to the same disclosures and data (or, at the very least, equivalent versions of both).<\/p>\n

Among the witnesses who support giving retail investors more access to information about IPO’s is DePaul University finance professor Ann Sherman. She suggested making issuers publish online at least two Q and A sessions from the IPO road show so that retail investors would be getting the same amount of information as the typical institutional investor that usually attends one such meeting. While she acknowledged that there are reasonable grounds for limiting how much access is given to analyst forecasts that tend to be “speculative,” she said that lawmakers should either make this data available to no one or to everyone. <\/p>\n

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