Decided to pass on Ant. Forecast PE of 87x (according to one broker) + small allocations likely does not sound exciting to me.
But it could create opportunities elsewhere:
https://www.scmp.com/business/market...iquidity-spike
Interesting that there's so much pessimism against the IPO. The wife understands the Chinese financial industry way better than I do and believes in the long term potential of Ant Financial so we're going in for the lottery. Let's see what happens..