GQG expected to raise $1.1b in ASX listing


Fund manager GQG Partners is expected to raise over $1.1 billion as it lists on the Australian Securities Exchange this week.
In an announcement on the ASX, the firm said official quotation of GQG’s CHESS depositary interests (CDIs) representing shares of common stock at a ratio of one CDI to one share of common stock would commence at 12.30 on 26 October on a conditional and deferred settlement basis.
It said it was expected GQG would raise $1,187,137,414 which would issue 593,568,707 CDIs to be settled at an issue price of $2 per CDI.
It would trade under the code GQG.
The float was first announced in mid-October following an announcement by its investor Pacific Current Group.
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