Investors snapped up SA's biggest bond sale yet, as Treasury increased the offering at the weekly bond auction to help plug a growing budget deficit. James Turp, portfolio manager at Absa Asset Management, talks about what demand was like at Tuesday's unprecedented R3.3bn auction. The appetite was there, he says.

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