December 30, 2020 Initial public offerings attracted record attention in 2020, and investors can consider an IPO-themed exchange traded fund to keep up with 2021 momentum. After a brief pause from the coronavirus pandemic, IPO activity resumed in late May after the Federal Reserve signaled it would take aggressive steps to prop up the economy, with a number of stocks that debuted around that period taking off, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to Dealogic data, newly listed companies raised $167.2 billion through 454 offerings on U.S. exchanges for the year ended Dec. 24, with $67.3 billion raised in the fourth quarter alone, compared to the prior full-year record of $107.9 billion during the dot-com boom in 1999.