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The 3rd-largest IPO of the year is off to a strong start

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athene holding

(Jim Belardi, Athene Holding Ltd.'s chairman and CEO, center, ringing a ceremonial bell to mark the beginning of trades in his company's IPO, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, on Friday.Richard Drew/AP)

Public trading in the third-largest initial public offering of 2016 started out strong on Friday.

Shares of Athene Holding, an insurer backed by the private-equity firm Apollo Global Management, gained 9% in their trading debut on the New York Stock Exchange.

Athene was founded in 2009 to buy assets from insurers that were torn down by the financial crisis. It provides retirement-savings products.

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The stock had been priced at $40 a share, the midpoint of the expected range of $38 to $42, and opened at $43.56. It is trading with the symbol ATH.

The company had raised $1.1 billion in an initial offering of 27 million class A shares. With 186 million shares outstanding, the company was valued at roughly $7.5 billion.

Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and Barclays were the underwriters for the deal.

The online hotel-search company Trivago is expected to debut its shares for public trading in the coming weeks, possibly jump-starting tech dealmaking next year after a sluggish 2016. The company backed by Expedia filed to go public in November.

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(Yahoo Finance)

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