Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust / Event-Driven

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/mapletree-commercial-trust" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:106:1" rel="noopener">Mapletree Commercial Trust (MCT SP)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/mapletree-north-asia-commercial-trust" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:5127:1" rel="noopener">Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust (MAGIC SP)</a> announced their prospective merger on Friday. </li>
<li>The merger ratio provides an uplift to already strong recent relative performance for MAGIC holders, and strong pro-forma NAV and DPU accretion for MCT holders. </li>
<li>And it means a lot of flow. Lots and lots of flow. </li>
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Mapletree Commercial Trust (MCT SP) and Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust (MAGIC SP) announced their prospective merger on Friday. 
The merger ratio provides an uplift to already strong recent relative performance for MAGIC holders, and strong pro-forma NAV and DPU accretion for MCT holders. 
And it means a lot of flow. Lots and lots of flow. 


Energy Transition | AI | Shifting World Order, Mint Finance

Pranay Yadav

Energy Transition | AI | Shifting World Order

Deep Fundamental Analysis

Mint Finance

Mint Finance's investment research blends deep fundamental analysis with technical & quant insights. Investment strategies straddle across multiple asset classes with risk management embedded into every trade to deliver an outsized reward-to-risk ratio.

Mint Finance's research is centered around three key themes. First, energy transition and climate change. Second, artificial intelligence. Third, shifting world order with its impact across politics and monetary economics.

Cross Asset Strategy

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<li>Singapore's REITs, representing 12% of the equity market, face pressures from rising interest rates and economic downturns, which impact profitability and market performance.</li>
<li>The data center REIT sector is propelled by increasing AI applications, data sovereignty laws, and the growth of cloud services, positioning it for significant expansion.</li>
<li>Digital Core REIT benefits from its presence in key tech hubs and high-performance computing offerings, positioning them to outperform in a tight data center market.</li>
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Singapore's REITs, representing 12% of the equity market, face pressures from rising interest rates and economic downturns, which impact profitability and market performance.
The data center REIT sector is propelled by increasing AI applications, data sovereignty laws, and the growth of cloud services, positioning it for significant expansion.
Digital Core REIT benefits from its presence in key tech hubs and high-performance computing offerings, positioning them to outperform in a tight data center market.


Gen AI Unleashes Hyper Demand for Data Centers

Product Marketing Manager, Criat

Raghav Chandra Mathur

Product Marketing Manager

Next-Generation Credit Analytics Provider

Criat

Criat specializes in new-generation data-driven credit analytics. Leveraging our industry-leading DeepCredit analytical technologies, we produce daily-updated forward-looking credit assessment and valuation to help financial institutions stay ahead of risks. Coupled with use-case-driven applications, we extract insights, answer questions and enable smarter credit decisions.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>In Asia's major markets, REITs are grappling with escalating macroeconomic and contagion risks, amplifying their financing and performance challenges.</li>
<li>The S&amp;P High Yield Asia Pacific-Ex New Zealand REITs Select total return index, tracking the top 30 dividend- yielding REITs, has plunged 10% YoY.</li>
<li>Asia-based REITs have felt the heat from rising interest rates and inflation since last year. More recently, developments in China’s ongoing property crisis are likely to be the dominant catalyst that impacts investor sentiment in the region.</li>
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In Asia's major markets, REITs are grappling with escalating macroeconomic and contagion risks, amplifying their financing and performance challenges.
The S&amp;P High Yield Asia Pacific-Ex New Zealand REITs Select total return index, tracking the top 30 dividend- yielding REITs, has plunged 10% YoY.
Asia-based REITs have felt the heat from rising interest rates and inflation since last year. More recently, developments in China’s ongoing property crisis are likely to be the dominant catalyst that impacts investor sentiment in the region.


Asia REITs Momentum Slows on Souring Investor Sentiments

ASEAN Insight Provider, CrossASEAN Research

Angus Mackintosh

ASEAN Insight Provider

CrossASEAN Research

At CrossASEAN Research we strive to produce unbiased and differentiated on the ground insights on companies across South East Asia. Our Research is produced for the most part after face to face meetings and conversations with company management to dig deep into the long term vision and strategy of the companies we cover. We seek to deliver investable and actionable themes on sectors and markets across SE Asia, often in collaboration with other Insight Providers across the region, pooling the vast experience of the analysts within the Smartkarma Ecosystem. We also offer bespoke work and tailor made trips for our clients. 

Insights across South East Asia

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<li>The past week saw in insights published on Bank Rakyat Indonesia, PT Avia Avian, Ultrajaya Milk, Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Vinagame IPO, and a <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/digital-core-reit" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:35145:1" rel="noopener">Digital Core REIT</a>/<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/keppel-dc-reit" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:85:1" rel="noopener">Keppel DC REIT</a> pair trade.</li>
<li>There were also macro insights looking at Thai political situation, and an insight looking at a more positive outlook for the Philippines, which investors remain dramatically underweight.</li>
<li>The Week That Was in ASEAN@Smartkarma is filled with an eclectic mix of differentiated, substantive, and actionable insights, macro and equity bottom-up, from across South East Asia.</li>
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The past week saw in insights published on Bank Rakyat Indonesia, PT Avia Avian, Ultrajaya Milk, Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Vinagame IPO, and a Digital Core REIT/Keppel DC REIT pair trade.
There were also macro insights looking at Thai political situation, and an insight looking at a more positive outlook for the Philippines, which investors remain dramatically underweight.
The Week That Was in ASEAN@Smartkarma is filled with an eclectic mix of differentiated, substantive, and actionable insights, macro and equity bottom-up, from across South East Asia.


The Week That Was in ASEAN@Smartkarma - Bank Rakyat Executing, Avia Avian, and Thai Politics

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Ethan Aw

APAC IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Equity Capital Markets

Nippon Prologis Reit / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nippon-prologis-reit-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:15683:1" rel="noopener">Nippon Prologis Reit (3283 JP)</a> is looking to raise US$184m in its primary follow-on offering to acquire one property, namely Prologis Park Soka. </li>
<li>The deal is a somewhat large one to digest, at 14 days of three month ADV but only 3% dilution. </li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the deal dynamics and run the deal through our ECM framework.</li>
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Nippon Prologis Reit (3283 JP) is looking to raise US$184m in its primary follow-on offering to acquire one property, namely Prologis Park Soka. 
The deal is a somewhat large one to digest, at 14 days of three month ADV but only 3% dilution. 
In this note, we will talk about the deal dynamics and run the deal through our ECM framework.


Nippon Prologis REIT Placement - Well-Flagged and past Deals Have Performed Decently

Singapore

Keppel DC REIT is Asia's first pure-play data centre REIT listed on the Singapore Exchange. Keppel DC REIT's investment strategy is to principally invest, directly or indirectly, in a diversified portfolio of income-producing real estate assets which are used primarily for data centre purposes, as well as real estate related assets.

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Keppel DC REIT (KDCREIT SP)

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Travis Lundy

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Mint Finance

Asia REITs Momentum Slows on Souring Investor Sentiments

In Asia's major markets, REITs are grappling with escalating macroeconomic and contagion risks, amplifying their financing and performance...

Criat

The Week That Was in ASEAN@Smartkarma - Bank Rakyat Executing, Avia Avian, and Thai Politics

The past week saw insights published on Bank Rakyat Indonesia, PT Avia Avian, Ultrajaya Milk, Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Vinagame IPO, and a Digital...

Angus Mackintosh

Nippon Prologis REIT Placement - Well-Flagged and past Deals Have Performed Decently

Nippon Prologis Reit (3283 JP) is looking to raise US$184m in its primary follow-on offering to acquire one property, namely Prologis Park Soka.

Ethan Aw

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Mapletree Mega-Merger Means MCT Markup

The proposed Mapletree Commercial Trust and Mapletree North Asian Commercial Trust combination creates a Top 10 Asian REIT and one of Singapore's...

Travis Lundy

Gen AI Unleashes Hyper Demand for Data Centers

​Singapore REITs face challenges from rising interest rates and economic downturns, while data center REITs are poised for growth driven by AI,...

Mint Finance

Asia REITs Momentum Slows on Souring Investor Sentiments

In Asia's major markets, REITs are grappling with escalating macroeconomic and contagion risks, amplifying their financing and performance...

Criat

The Week That Was in ASEAN@Smartkarma - Bank Rakyat Executing, Avia Avian, and Thai Politics

The past week saw insights published on Bank Rakyat Indonesia, PT Avia Avian, Ultrajaya Milk, Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Vinagame IPO, and a Digital...

Angus Mackintosh

Nippon Prologis REIT Placement - Well-Flagged and past Deals Have Performed Decently

Nippon Prologis Reit (3283 JP) is looking to raise US$184m in its primary follow-on offering to acquire one property, namely Prologis Park Soka.

Ethan Aw

Singapore REITs face challenges from rising interest rates and economic downturns, while data center REITs are poised for growth driven by AI,...