It’s sometimes said that British retail investors are no longer interested in buying equities. Tell that to the 100k individual British investors who applied for just under $1bn of SpaceX stock in its blockbuster IPO last month and were allocated 38% of what they requested.

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John Thornhill is Sifted’s founder and innovation editor of the Financial Times. He tweets from @johnthornhillft

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