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I'm Merrin Zumset-Webb, Bloomberg UK Money Editor-at-Large, and with me today is Anna MacDonald, Investment Strategy Director at Hargreaves Lansdowne.

Welcome, Anna.

Thank you very much for having me, Merrin.

It's a pleasure.

We haven't had you on for a while, but regular listeners will know that you have been frequently on and also have appeared at our Friends show.

And anyone who's listened to those recordings will know that Anna is expert on almost everything.

But today we're going to go, we're just going to talk about one small thing or rather one absolutely huge thing.

I've asked you on how to talk about the SpaceX IPO and what it really means for ordinary investors who an awful lot of them have had a go at getting a piece of this largest IPO ever, right?

I mean, I've heard from

It's some of the retail platforms that they've seen multiples of the level of applications they have ever seen for an IPO before.

Have you seen the same at Hargreaves Lantern?

And were most people going for £1,000, £20,000, £50,000?

What would it look like?

One of the things that is interesting to me is through which wrapper people have been buying SpaceX.

So I saw from one of the platforms that the majority of people were buying inside their ices and inside their sips.

It rather suggests that certainly if they're buying them inside their sips, they're not buying them to flip.

Although possibly if you're buying them inside an icer, you might have thinking you can flip them very quickly and there's no capital gains to pay.

Where were you seeing people buying in ordinary accounts for long-term wrappers or everything?