(Bloomberg) -- Temasek Holdings Pte, a Singapore state-owned investment company that bought stakes in Merrill Lynch & Co. and Barclays Plc amid the global financial crisis, sold its stake in Bank of America Corp.
Temasek received shares in Bank of America after the biggest U.S. bank by assets bought Merrill Lynch this year. The investment company had paid about $5.9 billion for a 14 percent stake in Merrill Lynch since December 2007, which was converted into Bank of America stock following the completion of the acquisition.
“We have divested our shares in Bank of America,” Temasek said in an e-mailed response to Bloomberg News queries. The company declined to say how much it sold the stake for or when the sale was conducted.
Temasek had 31 percent wiped from the value of its global portfolio in the eight months through November amid the slump in financial markets. The company had sold assets including power generators and Singapore Food Industries Ltd. over the past year while increasing its investments in companies such as CapitaLand Ltd. and DBS Group Holdings Ltd. through rights offers.
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