Group expects to reduce cash levels from $2.8b to $1-2b over 6-12 months
PROPERTY giant CapitaLand has deployed about $1 billion from its $1.8 billion rights issue earlier this year to grow its China, Vietnam and Ascott businesses. The money will be used to increase the respective capital base of these three wholly owned businesses of the group.
CapitaLand group CFO Olivier Lim said that, over the next 6-12 months, the group expects its corporate treasury cash levels to be reduced from the existing $2.8 billion to $1-2 billion, partly by pre-paying debt that matures in the next two to three years, and partly by deploying capital to investment opportunities that may arise.
The $2.8 billion corporate treasury cash is part of the $4.2 billion cash and cash equivalents as at June 30, 2009, as reported with CapitaLand’s first-half results last month.
Half or $500 million of the additional capital deployment will go to CapitaLand China Holdings, $299 million to CapitaLand (Vietnam) Holdings Continue reading
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