Foreign investors still hungry for convertibles

India

India

Foreign investors still appear to have an appetite for Indian foreign currency convertible bonds. Several Indian FCCBs issued early this year are trading at a discount in the secondary market. A $100 million convertible bond offering by Indian pharmaceutical company Wockhardt received a healthy response from European and offshore US hedge fund investors in mid-September. Around the same time, another Indian company, Sterling Biotech, sold $70 million of convertibles and four others – Sun Pharmaceuticals, Larsen & Toubro, United Phosporous and Orchid Chemicals – could come to market later this year.

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