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Opinion: Block trade bonanza or bubble fit to burst?

November 18, 2010  


Corporate shareholders are slashing their holdings in other companies via block trades and secondary equity offerings. Such sales would normally be telling signs of a bull market reaching its peak, but there's a lot of money still seeking a home in the region, writes Chris Wright.

An old adage from investment bankers who’ve been around a while is that when big shareholders start cashing out of company stakes via block trades it’s time to head for the exits.

And the block trades have been...


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SOUTHEAST ASIA DCM

Rank Bookrunner Parents Deal Value $ (Proceeds) (m) No. %share 2012 YTD Rank
1 Standard Chartered Bank 3,991 32 8.9 2
2 HSBC 3,710 35 8.3 4
3 Goldman Sachs 3,333 2 7.4 12
4 Deutsche Bank 2,895 14 6.4 8
5 Citi 2,774 9 6.2 5
6 JPMorgan 2,288 7 5.1 3
7 DBS 2,106 25 4.7 1
8 Siam Commercial Bank 1,835 16 4.1 21
9 Barclays 1,586 3 3.5 9
10 CIMB Group 1,523 27 3.4 13
Subtotal 26,040 123 57.9
Total 44,958 212 100.0



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