The state’s recent $400 million bond sale generated $152.4 million in orders from individual investors — the highest total in more than four years, State Treasurer Denise L. Nappier announced.
Of the money raised, $250 million will be used for school construction, $100 million will go toward the state’s commitment to Jackson Laboratory in Farmington, and $22 million will go to economic grant programs. The remainder will be used for state facilities.
The state offered $353 million of the amount as fixed-rate bonds that mature between 2015 and 2034. The remaining $47 million were variable-rate bonds, which pay interest at fixed spreads to the SIFMA Index.
An abundance of orders from institutional investors helped drive the interest rate on the $400 million sale to 3.28 percent, or $13.1 million, based on this week’s SIFMA Index reading, Nappier said.
