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Technology Stocks : FBN Associates - Year 2000/Y2K IPO!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tugboat who wrote (2278)	12/6/1998 7:35:00 AM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2770

There have been many times that I have looked longingly at some of the IPO's that my broker offered only to be disappointed because I didn't have the $100,000 minimum to participate... What rubbish. Whether you as an individual investor can get in on an IPO has to do with whether your brokerage is part of the syndicate and how much stock is allotted to retail customers. Often it's not very much; sometimes it's none at all. Once the entire DC branch of my brokerage got only 200 shares of a hot issue (which as it happened didn't do all that well). And in any case we're talking about companies that have REAL prospects, REAL underwriters, and do REAL IPOs. Not quite the same as the outfits Fairshare's promoting.