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You don’t need a family office to buy shares in unicorns

Andrew Hobbs

As if the revolution in private markets wasn’t enough, welcome to the world of the “private-public” sharemarket.

For a little under $8000 a trade, investors can buy and sell some of the world’s hottest unlisted private companies, such as SpaceX, OpenAI and even Melbourne’s own Airwallex, on US-based trading platforms that look and feel a lot like the ASX, at least online.

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Andrew Hobbs covers self-managed superannuation funds, financial planning, retirement and inheritance. He has been a financial journalist for more than 25 years, working previously at Bloomberg and Australian Associated Press.

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