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    General Insurance Corp's OFS sees 3% subscription so far from retail investors on Day 2

    Synopsis

    On Thursday, retail investors showed a 3.3% subscription rate for the General Insurance Corp offer for sale (OFS) on its opening day for retail participation. The issue had been available for non-retail investors since Wednesday.

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    The offer for sale (OFS) of General Insurance Corp saw a 3.3% demand from retail investors on Thursday, the day the issue opened for them. The issue opened for subscription on Wednesday for non-retail investors only.

    According to the BSE data as of noon today, the company received bids for nearly 1.96 lakh shares from the retail participants.

    The non-retail portion of the issue was oversubscribed by 108% on day 1 of the process. Those non-retail investors who have placed their bids on Wednesday and have chosen to carry forward their unallotted bids to the next day will also be allowed to revise their bids.

    Under the OFS, the government has decided to exercise the greenshoe option and sell an additional 3.39% stake, taking the total offer size to 6.78%.

    The government had proposed to sell up to 3.39% equity on September 4 for non-retail investors and at an offer price of Rs 395 a share, the share sale would fetch about Rs 4,700 crore to the government's exchequer.
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      The OFS regulations mandate that only retail investors and employees will be allowed to place their bids on Thursday.

      According to the latest shareholding pattern, the government currently holds 85.78% stake in GIC Re.

      General Insurance Corp is engaged in the activities of assuming all or part of the risk associated with existing insurance policies originally underwritten by other insurance carriers.

      In the domestic business, the company provides reinsurance to the direct general insurance companies in the Indian market. It provides various classes of businesses, such as fire, motor, aviation, engineering, health, agriculture, marine hull, marine cargo and life, among others.

      The shares of GIC RE were trading flat at Rs 398.50 on BSE around 12:15 pm.

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