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

Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Institutional investors rotated into S-REITs with S$26 million net inflows on April 3 amid market volatility.</li><li>S-REITs ended Q1 2025 with 2.8% total returns, driven by a 5.0% price gain in March.</li><li>Franklin Resources acquired 5.06% interest in Digital Core REIT, buying 969,800 units at US$0.577 each.</li></ul>

Institutional investors rotated into S-REITs with S$26 million net inflows on April 3 amid market volatility.S-REITs ended Q1 2025 with 2.8% total returns, driven by a 5.0% price gain in March.Franklin Resources acquired 5.06% interest in Digital Core REIT, buying 969,800 units at US$0.577 each.

REIT Watch - S-REITs record net institutional inflows in March as sector snaps 5-month losing streak

Mid-market focused investment bank within SE Asia, Evolve Capital Advisory Pte Ltd

Evolve Capital Research

Mid-market focused investment bank within SE Asia

Evolve Capital Advisory Pte Ltd

Hyphens Pharma International / Equity Bottom-Up

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/hyphens-pharma-international" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28034:1" rel="noopener">Hyphens Pharma International (HYP SP)</a> is a specialty pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare group. It has three key operating segments: Specialty Pharma Principals, Proprietary Brands and Medical Hypermart and Digital.</li>
<li>It has a direct presence in five ASEAN countries, including Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.</li>
<li>We initiate rated coverage on Hyphens with a TP of S$0.365, pegged to 9.5x FY25E P/E, representing an upside of approximately 28.1%.</li>
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Hyphens Pharma International (HYP SP) is a specialty pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare group. It has three key operating segments: Specialty Pharma Principals, Proprietary Brands and Medical Hypermart and Digital.
It has a direct presence in five ASEAN countries, including Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
We initiate rated coverage on Hyphens with a TP of S$0.365, pegged to 9.5x FY25E P/E, representing an upside of approximately 28.1%.


Hyphens Pharma Initiation - Decent Fundamentals, Weak Valuations

IPOs and Catalysts/Events, Global Equity Research Ltd

Arun George

IPOs and Catalysts/Events

Uncompromised, Independent, Conflict-Free Research

Global Equity Research Ltd

Global Equity Research was started in 2017 by a group of experienced research professionals. It was founded on a passionate belief in the importance and the need for uncompromised, independent, conflict-free research. We aim to provide differentiated and actionable primary and bottom up fundamental research.

Event-Driven

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/paragon-reit" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:5994:1" rel="noopener">Paragon REIT (PGNREIT SP)</a> announced a privatisation proposal from Cuscaden Peak at S$1.0033 per unit (S$0.98 cash per unit and the 2H FY2024 distribution of S$0.0233 per unit).  </li>
<li>The offer price is attractive compared to historical trading ranges, peer multiples and precedent privatisations.  It represents an all-time high. </li>
<li>No disinterested shareholder holds a blocking stake. At the current price and for an end-of-May payment, the gross/annualised spread was 1.3%/4.6%. </li>
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Paragon REIT (PGNREIT SP) announced a privatisation proposal from Cuscaden Peak at S$1.0033 per unit (S$0.98 cash per unit and the 2H FY2024 distribution of S$0.0233 per unit).  
The offer price is attractive compared to historical trading ranges, peer multiples and precedent privatisations.  It represents an all-time high. 
No disinterested shareholder holds a blocking stake. At the current price and for an end-of-May payment, the gross/annualised spread was 1.3%/4.6%. 


Paragon REIT (PGNREIT SP): Cuscaden Peak’s Attractive Privatisation Offer

<ul><li>After the recent softening in jobs data and inflation figures, the US Federal Reserve declared its first rate reduction in four years, decreasing the overnight borrowing rate by 50 basis points or half a percentage point, in line with market expectations.</li><li>The Fed has indicated additional rate cuts, forecasting another 50 basis points this year, a full percentage point in 2025, and half a percentage point in 2026.</li><li>Similarly, the five S-REITs that recorded largest net retail inflows were Frasers Centrepoint Trust, ESR-LOGOS REIT, Paragon REIT, Mapletree Industrial Trust, and CapitaLand Ascendas REIT.</li></ul>

After the recent softening in jobs data and inflation figures, the US Federal Reserve declared its first rate reduction in four years, decreasing the overnight borrowing rate by 50 basis points or half a percentage point, in line with market expectations.The Fed has indicated additional rate cuts, forecasting another 50 basis points this year, a full percentage point in 2025, and half a percentage point in 2026.Similarly, the five S-REITs that recorded largest net retail inflows were Frasers Centrepoint Trust, ESR-LOGOS REIT, Paragon REIT, Mapletree Industrial Trust, and CapitaLand Ascendas REIT.

REIT Watch - S-Reits gain 1.7% after Fed’s rate cut

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

Star Asia Investment / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/star-asia-investment-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:24040:1" rel="noopener">Star Asia Investment (3468 JP)</a> is looking to raise around US$118m in its primary follow-on offering to acquire four hotels. The acquisition will amount to a total of JPY34.7bn (US$237.5m). </li>
<li>The deal is a somewhat large one to digest, at 83 days of three month ADV and 13.3% of TSO .</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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Star Asia Investment (3468 JP) is looking to raise around US$118m in its primary follow-on offering to acquire four hotels. The acquisition will amount to a total of JPY34.7bn (US$237.5m). 
The deal is a somewhat large one to digest, at 83 days of three month ADV and 13.3% of TSO .
In this note, we will talk about the deal dynamics and run the deal through our ECM framework.


Star Asia Investment Corp Placement - Needs a Decent Correction Leading up to Pricing

Singapore

Starhill Global REIT is a real estate investment trust.  The trust invests in retail and office buildings in Singapore and overseas.

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Starhill Global REIT (SGREIT SP)

REIT Watch - S-REITs record net institutional inflows in March as sector snaps 5-month losing streak

Institutional investors rotated into S-REITs with S$26 million net inflows on April 3 amid market volatility. S-REITs ended Q1 2025 with 2.8%...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Hyphens Pharma Initiation - Decent Fundamentals, Weak Valuations

We initiate rated coverage on Hyphens with a TP of S$0.365, pegged to 9.5x FY25E P/E, representing an upside of approximately 28.1%.

Evolve Capital Advisory Pte Ltd

Paragon REIT (PGNREIT SP): Cuscaden Peak’s Attractive Privatisation Offer

This is a done deal. No disinterested shareholder holds a blocking stake. At the current price and for an end-of-May payment, the gross/annualised...

Arun George

REIT Watch - S-Reits gain 1.7% after Fed’s rate cut

After the recent softening in jobs data and inflation figures, the US Federal Reserve declared its first rate reduction in four years, decreasing...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Star Asia Investment Corp Placement - Needs a Decent Correction Leading up to Pricing

Star Asia Investment (3468 JP) is looking to raise around US$118m in its primary follow-on offering to acquire four hotels. The acquisition will...

Ethan Aw

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