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.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>SGX’s Real Estate Developers and Operators have returned 12% YTD, outperforming the STI’s +8%. Despite the rally, the price-to-book ratio of the Sector is still trading near one standard deviation below its historical mean.</li>
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Potential drivers for the Singapore property market exist on both the supply and demand front. The biggest Real Estate Developer stocks with substantial Singapore exposure include UOL Group, United Industrial Corporation, Wheelock Properties, Wing Tai Holdings and Bukit…</li>
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SGX’s Real Estate Developers and Operators have returned 12% YTD, outperforming the STI’s +8%. Despite the rally, the price-to-book ratio of the Sector is still trading near one standard deviation below its historical mean.

Potential drivers for the Singapore property market exist on both the supply and demand front. The biggest Real Estate Developer stocks with substantial Singapore exposure include UOL Group, United Industrial Corporation, Wheelock Properties, Wing Tai Holdings and Bukit…


Real Estate Sector Outperformed in the Year to Date

Special Situations, Content Strategist, Smartkarma

Crispin Francis

Special Situations, Content Strategist

Smartkarma

Smartkarma unites the fragmented investment industry, connecting institutional investors, independent research providers, and corporates within a single network.

Research Reinvented

The numbers are in; industrial S-REITs/Trusts ("SREITs") have reported their most recent quarterly results. In this piece, we look at the mid-sized industrial SREITs' 2016 financial performance and compare the figures to that of 2015. From the results, it is clear that headwinds in the sector have not left any unscathed.

The numbers are in; industrial S-REITs/Trusts ("SREITs") have reported their most recent quarterly results. In this piece, we look at the mid-sized industrial SREITs' 2016 financial performance and compare the figures to that of 2015. From the results, it is clear that headwinds in the sector have not left any unscathed. 

SREIT M&A Season; Is The Writing on the Wall?

Asia's Leading Online Property Group, PropertyGuru

Bjorn Sprengers

Asia's Leading Online Property Group

PropertyGuru

PropertyGuru Pte Ltd owns and operates a real estate property information website. The Company offers facilities to search for condominiums, apartments, Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats, serviced apartments, houses, and commercial properties to rent and buy in Singapore.

2016 was an interesting year for the Executive Condominium (EC) market, with a number of projects doing extremely well due to its sound fundamentals. While the glut of units in the market has been reduced, more time is needed for the current supply to be absorbed: <ul><li>The supply of ECs has tapered to deal with oversupply and a high vacancy rate.</li><li>Prices remained weaker in 2016, which contributed to the recovery in transaction volumes.</li><li>Long term, ECs continue to see decent capital appreciation for homeowners.</li><li>There are two likely EC launches in 2017, one in Choa Chu Kang, the other in Yio Chu Kan</li></ul>

2016 was an interesting year for the Executive Condominium (EC) market, with a number of projects doing extremely well due to its sound fundamentals. While the glut of units in the market has been reduced, more time is needed for the current supply to be absorbed: The supply of ECs has tapered to deal with oversupply and a high vacancy rate.Prices remained weaker in 2016, which contributed to the recovery in transaction volumes.Long term, ECs continue to see decent capital appreciation for homeowners.There are two likely EC launches in 2017, one in Choa Chu Kang, the other in Yio Chu Kan

Singapore Residential - Tightened Supply for ECs in 2017

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

David Blennerhassett

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

Relatively speaking, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/5290" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:5290:1">Guoco Group Ltd (53 HK)</a>'s shares displayed signs of life in the past week, posting a 3% gain mid-week, before handing back ~1.5%.Guoco has thrice been the subject of offers over the past 16 years, the last one lapsing in May 2013. There are few arguments for maintaining Guoco’s listing – it’s illiquid and has never undertaken any corporate action. And despite a straightforward holdco structure, it’s cheap – a detail not lost on the Quek family’s repeated attempts to take the stock private or increase its percentage exposure.NAV, past offers and shareholder thoughts – all below the fold

Relatively speaking, Guoco Group Ltd (53 HK)'s shares displayed signs of life in the past week, posting a 3% gain mid-week, before handing back ~1.5%.Guoco has thrice been the subject of offers over the past 16 years, the last one lapsing in May 2013. There are few arguments for maintaining Guoco’s listing – it’s illiquid and has never undertaken any corporate action. And despite a straightforward holdco structure, it’s cheap – a detail not lost on the Quek family’s repeated attempts to take the stock private or increase its percentage exposure.NAV, past offers and shareholder thoughts – all below the fold

Deciphering real estate markets globally., Rems Advisors

TAN Kok Keong

Deciphering real estate markets globally.

Rems Advisors

According to the latest URA Statistics, the downturn in Singapore's Private Residential Property continues. The Private Residential Property Price Index (RPPI) decreased by 0.5% in 4th quarter 2016, rent by 1.0% and vacancy rate was up by 0.3 percentage points. The RPPI is in its 13th consecutive quarters of decline, the longest downturn since the early 2000s.  Year on year, the RPPI has decreased by a mere 3.1%,  a far cry from the massive price drop that many analysts were forecasting. A…

According to the latest URA Statistics, the downturn in Singapore's Private Residential Property continues. The Private Residential Property Price Index (RPPI) decreased by 0.5% in 4th quarter 2016, rent by 1.0% and vacancy rate was up by 0.3 percentage points. The RPPI is in its 13th consecutive quarters of decline, the longest downturn since the early 2000s.  Year on year, the RPPI has decreased by a mere 3.1%,  a far cry from the massive price drop that many analysts were forecasting. A…

What's up in the Residential Property Market?

Singapore

GuocoLand Limited is a regional property company with operations in Singapore, China, Malaysia and Vietnam. Headquartered in Singapore, the principal business activities of GuocoLand and its subsidiaries (“the Group”) are property development, property investment, hotel operations and property management.

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GuocoLand (GUOL SP)

Real Estate Sector Outperformed in the Year to Date

SGX’s Real Estate Developers and Operators have returned 12% YTD, outperforming the STI’s +8%. Despite the rally, the price-to-book ratio of the...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

SREIT M&A Season; Is The Writing on the Wall?

The numbers are in; industrial S-REITs/Trusts ("SREITs") have reported their most recent quarterly results. In this piece, we look at the mid-sized...

Crispin Francis

Singapore Residential - Tightened Supply for ECs in 2017

2016 was an interesting year for the Executive Condominium (EC) market, with a number of projects doing extremely well due to its sound...

PropertyGuru

Guoco - All in the Family

Relatively speaking, Guoco Group Ltd (53 HK)'s shares displayed signs of life in the past week, posting a 3% gain mid-week, before handing back...

David Blennerhassett

What's up in the Residential Property Market?

According to the latest URA Statistics, the downturn in Singapore's Private Residential Property continues. The Private Residential Property Price...

TAN Kok Keong

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