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.

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Cohen & Steers increases deemed interests in Parkway Life Reit and Digital Core Reit Stamford Land Corporation led the buyback consideration tally, buying back 325 million shares at an average price of S$0.40 per share over four sessions.</li><li>On Feb 1, Cohen & Steers Capital Management also increased its deemed interest in Digital Core Reit (DCReit) to above the 5 per cent substantial shareholder threshold.</li></ul>

Cohen & Steers increases deemed interests in Parkway Life Reit and Digital Core Reit Stamford Land Corporation led the buyback consideration tally, buying back 325 million shares at an average price of S$0.40 per share over four sessions.On Feb 1, Cohen & Steers Capital Management also increased its deemed interest in Digital Core Reit (DCReit) to above the 5 per cent substantial shareholder threshold.

Cohen & Steers increases deemed interests in Parkway Life Reit and Digital Core Reit

<ul><li>REIT Watch - S-Reits actively enhance funding measures Since start of 2024, at least eight S-Reits and property trusts have announced plans to tap on debt facilities or raise funds via the secondary market.</li><li>Both Daiwa House Logistics Trust (DHLT) and ESR-Logos Reit (E-Log) announced new investments in the Japan market this year, to be funded via debt facilities.</li></ul>

REIT Watch - S-Reits actively enhance funding measures Since start of 2024, at least eight S-Reits and property trusts have announced plans to tap on debt facilities or raise funds via the secondary market.Both Daiwa House Logistics Trust (DHLT) and ESR-Logos Reit (E-Log) announced new investments in the Japan market this year, to be funded via debt facilities.

REIT Watch - S-Reits actively enhance funding measures

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

Digital Core REIT / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/digital-core-reit" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:35145:1" rel="noopener">Digital Core REIT (DCREIT SP)</a> is looking to raise at least US$100m in its primary placement. The proceeds will be used to fund potential acquisitions and debt repayment. </li>
<li>The deal will be a large one to digest at 72.7 days of three month ADV and 12.8% dilution.</li>
<li>In this note, we'll run the deal through our ECM framework and comment on deal dynamics.</li>
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Digital Core REIT (DCREIT SP) is looking to raise at least US$100m in its primary placement. The proceeds will be used to fund potential acquisitions and debt repayment. 
The deal will be a large one to digest at 72.7 days of three month ADV and 12.8% dilution.
In this note, we'll run the deal through our ECM framework and comment on deal dynamics.


Digital Core REIT Placement - Taking a Turn for the Better After All the Negative News

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<li>In this note, we will take a look at broker performance for ASEAN IPOs and placements in 2023. </li>
<li>The following dataset includes all ASEAN IPOs and placements above US$100m, <strong>which amounted to a total of 18 deals. </strong>
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<li>The deals you see in this note are based on our historical IPO and placement tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information.</li>
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In this note, we will take a look at broker performance for ASEAN IPOs and placements in 2023. 
The following dataset includes all ASEAN IPOs and placements above US$100m, which amounted to a total of 18 deals. 

The deals you see in this note are based on our historical IPO and placement tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information.


Aequitas ASEAN IPOs + Placements Broker Performance 2023

Embassy Office Parks REIT / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/blackstone-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27166:1" rel="noopener">Blackstone (BX US)</a> is looking to raise around US$834m through a secondary block deal. This will be a clean-up as Blackstone fully exits from <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/embassy-office-parks-reit" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27925:1" rel="noopener">Embassy Office Parks REIT (EMBASSY IN)</a>.  </li>
<li>The deal is a large one to digest, at approximately 397.2 days of three month ADV and 20.7% of current mcap.  </li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the selldown and run the deal through our ECM framework.</li>
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Blackstone (BX US) is looking to raise around US$834m through a secondary block deal. This will be a clean-up as Blackstone fully exits from Embassy Office Parks REIT (EMBASSY IN).  
The deal is a large one to digest, at approximately 397.2 days of three month ADV and 20.7% of current mcap.  
In this note, we will talk about the selldown and run the deal through our ECM framework.


Embassy Office Parks REIT Block - Likely Well Flagged and Overhang Will Be Removed

Singapore

Parkway Life Real Estate Investment Trust (Parkway Life REIT) invests primarily in income producing real estate and real estate related assets in the Asia Pacific region. The trust's real estate is used primarily for healthcare and healthcare-related purposes.

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Parkway Life REIT (PREIT SP)

Cohen & Steers increases deemed interests in Parkway Life Reit and Digital Core Reit

Cohen & Steers increases deemed interests in Parkway Life Reit and Digital Core Reit Stamford Land Corporation led the buyback consideration...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

REIT Watch - S-Reits actively enhance funding measures

REIT Watch - S-Reits actively enhance funding measures Since start of 2024, at least eight S-Reits and property trusts have announced plans to tap...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Digital Core REIT Placement - Taking a Turn for the Better After All the Negative News

Digital Core REIT (DCREIT SP) is looking to raise at least US$100m in its primary placement. The proceeds will be used to fund potential...

Ethan Aw

Aequitas ASEAN IPOs + Placements Broker Performance 2023

In this note, we will take a look at broker performance for ASEAN IPOs and placements in 2023, which amounted to a total of 18 deals.

Ethan Aw

Embassy Office Parks REIT Block - Likely Well Flagged and Overhang Will Be Removed

Blackstone (BX US) is looking to raise around US$834m through a secondary block deal. This will be a clean-up as Blackstone fully exits from...

Ethan Aw

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