Why has it been so hard for individual investors, sometimes referred to as retail investors, to purchase IPOs?

Why has it been so hard for individual investors, sometimes referred to as retail investors, to purchase IPOs?

Investment banks that underwrite IPO’s have been eliminating their retail brokers along with their smaller customers for many years.

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