SGX Market Strategist, Equity & Fixed Income, Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Geoff Howie

SGX Market Strategist, Equity & Fixed Income

Asia’s leading multi-asset exchange

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Singapore Exchange is Asia’s leading and trusted market infrastructure, facilitating the exchange of capital and ideas to create value for people, businesses and economies. As a multi-asset exchange operating equity, fixed income and derivatives markets to the highest regulatory standards, SGX is a vertically integrated business that provides listing, trading, clearing, settlement, depository and data services.

With about 40% of listed companies and over 80% of listed bonds originating outside of Singapore as well as established linkages across the region and in Europe, SGX is Asia’s most international and connected exchange. Offering a full suite of derivatives products across Asian equity indices, commodities and currencies, SGX is the world’s most liquid international market for the benchmark equity indices of China, India, Japan and ASEAN.

As Asia’s pioneering central counterparty, SGX is globally recognised for its risk management and clearing capabilities, and was one of the first globally to adopt the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructure.

Headquartered in AAA-rated Singapore, SGX has over 800 employees including offices in Beijing, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, New York, Mumbai, San Francisco, Shanghai and Tokyo.

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Mapletree Industrial Trust / Equity Bottom-Up

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In Singapore, the suite of iEdge S-Reit Indices measures the performance of Reits listed on SGX. The suite comprises the iEdge S-Reit index, widely regarded as one of S-Reits' barometers, and a narrower subset of it, the iEdge S-Reit Leaders Index.

The iEdge S-Reit Leaders Index is a narrow, tradable, adjusted free-float market capitalisation weighted index that measures the performance of the most liquid trusts in Singapore. Constituents must be listed on SGX and classified under Reits as defined by the Factset Revere Business Industry Classification System. The trust must also have free float of at least 20 per cent and a free float market capitalisation of at least S$500 million.

All eligible trusts are screened for liquidity at the semi-annual rebalancing in March and September. To enter the iEdge S-Reit Leaders Index, eligible trusts must trade at least US$500,000 in daily turnover and a 0.10 per cent daily trading velocity of the free float market capitalisation.

To maintain an existing place, constituents must maintain US$400,000 in daily turnover and a 0.08 per cent daily trading velocity of the free float market capitalisation. 
Following Lendlease Global Commercial REIT’s (LREIT) addition in March 2021, there are currently 27 constituents in the iEdge S-REIT Leaders Index. 
LReit has a diversified portfolio comprising of a leasehold interest in, 313@somerset, a prime retail property located in Singapore and a freehold interest in Sky Complex, which comprises three grade-A office buildings located in Milan.

In October 2020, LReit acquired a 5.0 per cent stake in Lendlease Asian Retail Investment Fund 3, which indirectly holds a 75.0 per cent interest in Jem, an integrated office and retail development in Singapore.

Comparing total returns, the iEdge S-Reit Leaders Index (-0.9 per cent), proved to be more resilient than the broader iEdge S-Reit Index (-2.6 per cent) and the FTSE EPRA/Nareit Global Reits Index (-12.0 per cent) last year.

Though the iEdge S-Reit Leaders Index (+4.0 per cent) lagged the global benchmark (+25.1 per cent) in 2021 year-to-date, it outperformed in the long term. The five-year total returns of the iEdge S-Reit Leaders Index came in at 60.6 per cent versus FTSE EPRA/Nareit Global Reit Index's 28.2 per cent. This was mostly led by S-Reits with data centre, industrial, and healthcare assets. 
The constituents with the highest five-year total returns include: Keppel DC REIT (+175.6 per cent), Mapletree Logistics Trust (+168.0 per cent), ParkwayLife REIT (+133.2 per cent), Mapletree Industrial Trust (+123.9 per cent) and Frasers Logistics and Commercial Trust (+113.8 per cent). Together, the five trusts make up approximately 36 per cent of the overall index weightage.

Products tracking the iEdge S-Reit Leaders Index include the SGX iEdge S-Reit Leaders Index Futures and the Syfe Reit+ portfolio. REIT Watch is a weekly column on The Business Times, <a href="https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/companies-markets/iedge-s-reit-indices-barometers-for-s-reits">read </a>the original version.
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In Singapore, the suite of iEdge S-Reit Indices measures the performance of Reits listed on SGX. The suite comprises the iEdge S-Reit index, widely regarded as one of S-Reits' barometers, and a narrower subset of it, the iEdge S-Reit Leaders Index.

The iEdge S-Reit Leaders Index is a narrow, tradable, adjusted free-float market capitalisation weighted index that measures the performance of the most liquid trusts in Singapore. Constituents must be listed on SGX and classified under Reits as defined by the Factset Revere Business Industry Classification System. The trust must also have free float of at least 20 per cent and a free float market capitalisation of at least S$500 million.

All eligible trusts are screened for liquidity at the semi-annual rebalancing in March and September. To enter the iEdge S-Reit Leaders Index, eligible trusts must trade at least US$500,000 in daily turnover and a 0.10 per cent daily trading velocity of the free float market capitalisation.

To maintain an existing place, constituents must maintain US$400,000 in daily turnover and a 0.08 per cent daily trading velocity of the free float market capitalisation.  
Following Lendlease Global Commercial REIT’s (LREIT) addition in March 2021, there are currently 27 constituents in the iEdge S-REIT Leaders Index.  
LReit has a diversified portfolio comprising of a leasehold interest in, 313@somerset, a prime retail property located in Singapore and a freehold interest in Sky Complex, which comprises three grade-A office buildings located in Milan.

In October 2020, LReit acquired a 5.0 per cent stake in Lendlease Asian Retail Investment Fund 3, which indirectly holds a 75.0 per cent interest in Jem, an integrated office and retail development in Singapore.

Comparing total returns, the iEdge S-Reit Leaders Index (-0.9 per cent), proved to be more resilient than the broader iEdge S-Reit Index (-2.6 per cent) and the FTSE EPRA/Nareit Global Reits Index (-12.0 per cent) last year.

Though the iEdge S-Reit Leaders Index (+4.0 per cent) lagged the global benchmark (+25.1 per cent) in 2021 year-to-date, it outperformed in the long term. The five-year total returns of the iEdge S-Reit Leaders Index came in at 60.6 per cent versus FTSE EPRA/Nareit Global Reit Index's 28.2 per cent. This was mostly led by S-Reits with data centre, industrial, and healthcare assets.  
The constituents with the highest five-year total returns include: Keppel DC REIT (+175.6 per cent), Mapletree Logistics Trust (+168.0 per cent), ParkwayLife REIT (+133.2 per cent), Mapletree Industrial Trust (+123.9 per cent) and Frasers Logistics and Commercial Trust (+113.8 per cent). Together, the five trusts make up approximately 36 per cent of the overall index weightage.

Products tracking the iEdge S-Reit Leaders Index include the SGX iEdge S-Reit Leaders Index Futures and the Syfe Reit+ portfolio.  REIT Watch is a weekly column on The Business Times, read the original version.



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Baptista Research is an independent financial research house focused on the U.S. markets. We provide equity research as well as credit research reports on the top-listed U.S. companies with most of our focus on technology, consumer goods and services, automobiles, industrials, oil and gas, pharma, and healthcare. Our research has served more than 3000 institutional investors including mutual funds, hedge funds, banks, family offices, and various buy-side firms. We operate a research subscription service where institutions, as well as retail investors, can have priority access to all our research. We also have a wide distribution of our research reports across some of the top global financial platforms. Apart from equity research and credit research, we also provide advisory services with respect to mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity/ venture capital fundraising, valuation reports, and investment management services for corporates.
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We see those big numbers in the press, almost daily it seems. About ESG assets under management (AUM) reaching US$40 trillion, expected to hit US$53 trillion by 2025. Or about quarterly ESG fund flows nearing US$100 billion, and the seismic shift in ESG AUM to passively-managed funds.Recent growth in SRI (sustainable and responsible investing) and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) assets and investment products would not be possible without the growing ecosystem of index providers, and the SRI/ESG indices and benchmarks that they create.The ongoing boom in SRI/ESG indexing, which shows no signs of slowing, creates new opportunies for investors – and I do not mean investing in indexed mutual funds or ETFs. Too obvious, and too retail. I am referring to emergent opportunities associated with SRI/ESG index arbitrage.Index rebalancing/reconstitution events often create windows of abnormal returns for constituents being re-weighted, added, or dropped. That much is obvious, and the effects of broad market index changes are well-known. For SRI/ESG indices, this is uncharted territory with huge potential.This Smartkarma Original looks at the evolving SRI/ESG indexing landscape, and more importantly the emergent investing (e.g., stocks of listed indexers) and trading (e.g., arbitraging index changes) strategies arising from this global boom in SRI/ESG indices... from an Original perspective.<h2>WHAT'S ORIGINAL?</h2>Typically, discussions about SRI/ESG indices focus on their performance and in the context of that age-old "ESG-Alpha" debate – i.e., whether incorporating ESG factors into the investment process is worth the effort. To be clear, that is an important debate to have (and win). However, this report takes a different angle on SRI/ESG indices by focusing on investing and trading and strategies that capitalise on the boom in SRI/ESG indices. Theory (and a little speculation) backed by analysis.

We see those big numbers in the press, almost daily it seems. About ESG assets under management (AUM) reaching US$40 trillion, expected to hit US$53 trillion by 2025. Or about quarterly ESG fund flows nearing US$100 billion, and the seismic shift in ESG AUM to passively-managed funds.Recent growth in SRI (sustainable and responsible investing) and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) assets and investment products would not be possible without the growing ecosystem of index providers, and the SRI/ESG indices and benchmarks that they create.The ongoing boom in SRI/ESG indexing, which shows no signs of slowing, creates new opportunies for investors – and I do not mean investing in indexed mutual funds or ETFs. Too obvious, and too retail. I am referring to emergent opportunities associated with SRI/ESG index arbitrage.Index rebalancing/reconstitution events often create windows of abnormal returns for constituents being re-weighted, added, or dropped. That much is obvious, and the effects of broad market index changes are well-known. For SRI/ESG indices, this is uncharted territory with huge potential.This Smartkarma Original looks at the evolving SRI/ESG indexing landscape, and more importantly the emergent investing (e.g., stocks of listed indexers) and trading (e.g., arbitraging index changes) strategies arising from this global boom in SRI/ESG indices... from an Original perspective.WHAT'S ORIGINAL?Typically, discussions about SRI/ESG indices focus on their performance and in the context of that age-old "ESG-Alpha" debate – i.e., whether incorporating ESG factors into the investment process is worth the effort. To be clear, that is an important debate to have (and win). However, this report takes a different angle on SRI/ESG indices by focusing on investing and trading and strategies that capitalise on the boom in SRI/ESG indices. Theory (and a little speculation) backed by analysis.

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FactSet Research Systems Inc. supplies global economic and financial data to analysts, investment bankers, and other financial professionals.  The Company combines databases from multiple suppliers into a single online source of information and analytics, including fundamental data.

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