Kolkata: Bidding for the Lenskart IPO opens today. On October 30, the company informed the exchanges of a storm of anchor investment, when bids of Rs 68,000 crore were recorded. As many as 70 investors took part in the bid. The list included names such as the Government of Singapore, Monetary Authority of Singapore, T Rowe Price, BlackRock, Fidelity, Nomura, Goldman Sachs, SBI Mutual Fund, ICICI Prudential MF, HDFC MF, Kotak MF and Aditya Birla Sun Life MF. Foreign institutions accounted for 52% of the anchor round of investments.

Lenskart garnered a total of Rs 3,268 crore from the anchor round. While the total anchor bids were almost 10 times the issue size, the anchor round mobilised as much 45% of the Rs 7,278 crore intends to raise. The public offer comprises a fresh issue of shares

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