AJ Bell IPO: A potential bright spot in asset management industry gloom
Don’t look to the UK’s wealth managers for any sense of clarity regarding the current state of the markets. We’re receiving very mixed signals. On the one hand, St James’s Place and Rathbones have been punished by a market nervous about the outcome of Brexit negotiations, but Brewin Dolphin has managed to report record assets under management in the financial year to September 2018 and AJ Bell has said it is seeking a market capitalisation on IPO at the upper end of analyst’s forecasts.
The good:
AJ Bell IPO – The asset manager is seeking a market capitalisation of between £626m and £675m as it prepares its Initial Public Offering (IPO). The company will join the stock market on 12 December, five days after it sets the final price (which will be based on investor demand). Analysts hadn’t expected the group to set such a high price target for its shares (between 154p and 166p) and had previously been forecasting…
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