With central banks worldwide seemingly committed to sustained easing, abundant funding opportunities are the new normal for Asian borrowers. Fantasia Holdings, a Shenzhen-based property developer, took advantage of the conditions yesterday to raise $250 million from the sale of a five-year bond.
Fantasia first tapped the dollar bond market in May 2010 with a $120 million deal, but those bonds are illiquid and, as a result, many investors were looking at the company for the first time when it started a non-deal roadshow in Hong Kong and Singapore on Monday and Tuesday.
It launched the deal the next day, attracting $1.5 billion of orders from 118 accounts...