Mega-IPOs: When Private Goes Public
As SpaceX moves toward an IPO of unprecedented scale, many institutional investors cannot answer a question they should: What is your total exposure, not fund by fund, but in aggregate? MSCI’s Luke Flemmer and Nick Fusco discuss how secondary-market pricing data helps investors see through the opacity of private holdings — mapping true valuations, identifying concentration risk and navigating the complex transition from private to public. The SpaceX IPO may be singular in scale — the questions it raises are not.
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