John Stepek
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And also SpaceX isn't the only one.
There's quite a few big IPOs coming down the track.
Yeah, I think that's really interesting because the other day I was chatting to your colleague Sam Unstead while you were out the other day about this kind of IPO.
We were saying, oh, I wonder if SpaceX might break the passive market.
And in a way, I think this is actually how it breaks.
It is very clear now that there is no such thing as a passive investment.
But this is really kind of like hung a label on the fact that if you if you buy the S&P tracker, you're getting a very different kind of and essentially an actively.
A portfolio with a certain layer of active management on it.
To be clear, I approve of S&P's decision.
I think it's the correct decision.
I think the idea that you should have to have a year or so of actually being a listed company, even if you're a huge one, makes a lot of sense.
But at the end of the day, it's their active choice.
You know, you can equally rationalize as the Nasdaq presumably does that, well, actually, this is a massive stock.
You know, it's significant.
Investors will want it in their portfolios.
Yeah, right.
So that's the argument.
Yeah.
But that's the point.
So now it's bifurcated.