Institutional investors’ growing willingness to engage with unrated and other forms of higher-yielding debt supported the substantially larger volume outcome achieved by Australia’s latest returning unrated issuer, the deal’s arranger says. NEXTDC priced A$300 million (US$222.5 million) of four-year bonds on 15 May from a significantly oversubscribed book according to deal sources.
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