Smooth Sailing For IPOs, But Does Trouble Lurk Beneath The Surface?

By Written by Craig Clay, full bio below. Forecasters appear to be right in their predictions that 2017 would be a blockbuster year for IPOs, with the first half of the year seeing the highest volume of global IPOs in nearly a decade. Year over year, deal values rose 90 percent to US$83.4 billion and the volume of IPOs increased 70 percent to 772. That activity is only expected to increase according to a survey of global dealmakers by Mergermarket. But what is driving this hot market and how sustainable is it? [activistinvesting] Tech and Asia Rising The tech sector…