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>REIT Watch – Retail S-REITs’ metrics surpass pre-Covid; poised to benefit from tourism boost The Singapore Tourism Board expects the nation to receive up to 14 million international visitors this year, more than double the 6.3 million recorded in 2022.</li><li>Frasers Centrepoint Trust reported that shopper traffic and tenant sales in Q1 FY23 remained robust and grew 38.3 per cent and 13.4 per cent yoy, respectively.</li></ul>

REIT Watch – Retail S-REITs’ metrics surpass pre-Covid; poised to benefit from tourism boost The Singapore Tourism Board expects the nation to receive up to 14 million international visitors this year, more than double the 6.3 million recorded in 2022.Frasers Centrepoint Trust reported that shopper traffic and tenant sales in Q1 FY23 remained robust and grew 38.3 per cent and 13.4 per cent yoy, respectively.

REIT Watch – Retail S-REITs’ metrics surpass pre-Covid; poised to benefit from tourism boost

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, 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.

Event-Driven

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/link-reit" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:872:1" rel="noopener">Link REIT (823 HK)</a> (LREIT) aims to undertake a 1 for 5 rights issue at a subscription price of HK$44.20/unit, to raise around US$2.4bn.</li>
<li>After announcing a S$2.2bn acquisition in late Dec 2022, the company explicitly mentioned that it didn’t need to raise any new capital. Thus, the rights issue marks an abrupt turnaround.</li>
<li>In this note, we talk about the right issue, its previous acquisition and the overall implications.</li>
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Link REIT (823 HK) (LREIT) aims to undertake a 1 for 5 rights issue at a subscription price of HK$44.20/unit, to raise around US$2.4bn.
After announcing a S$2.2bn acquisition in late Dec 2022, the company explicitly mentioned that it didn’t need to raise any new capital. Thus, the rights issue marks an abrupt turnaround.
In this note, we talk about the right issue, its previous acquisition and the overall implications.


Link REIT US$2.4bn Rights Issue - Mistimed but Yield at the Rights Price Might Be the Saving Grace

<ul><li>S-Reits see resilience in diversification As Singapore Reits and property trusts continue to diversify in terms of asset mix, diversified S-Reits now make up the largest sub-segment of the sector.</li><li>Today, there are nine diversified S-Reits, making up almost a quarter of the total number of S-Reits.</li></ul>

S-Reits see resilience in diversification As Singapore Reits and property trusts continue to diversify in terms of asset mix, diversified S-Reits now make up the largest sub-segment of the sector.Today, there are nine diversified S-Reits, making up almost a quarter of the total number of S-Reits.

REIT Watch - S-Reits see resilience in diversification

<ul><li>Source: Company announcements extracted as of 27 Jan 2023 before market opens.</li><li>Five S-Reits have released their financial results or business updates for the latest reporting period, of which Suntec Reit announced its full year results.</li><li>However, full year DPU grew 2.5 per cent to 8.884 cents due to higher NPI contribution and a capital distribution of S$23.0 million.</li></ul>

Source: Company announcements extracted as of 27 Jan 2023 before market opens.Five S-Reits have released their financial results or business updates for the latest reporting period, of which Suntec Reit announced its full year results.However, full year DPU grew 2.5 per cent to 8.884 cents due to higher NPI contribution and a capital distribution of S$23.0 million.

REIT Watch - S-Reits’ upcoming 2022 report cards

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Suntec Real Estate Investment Trust is a commercial real estate investment trust. The Trust invests in income-producing real estate that is primarily used for retail and/or office purposes.

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REIT Watch – Retail S-REITs’ metrics surpass pre-Covid; poised to benefit from tourism boost

REIT Watch – Retail S-REITs’ metrics surpass pre-Covid; poised to benefit from tourism boost The Singapore Tourism Board expects the nation to...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Link REIT US$2.4bn Rights Issue - Mistimed but Yield at the Rights Price Might Be the Saving Grace

Link REIT (823 HK) (LREIT) aims to undertake a 1 for 5 rights issue at a subscription price of HK$44.20/unit, to raise around US$2.4bn. In this...

Sumeet Singh

REIT Watch - S-Reits see resilience in diversification

S-Reits see resilience in diversification As Singapore Reits and property trusts continue to diversify in terms of asset mix, diversified S-Reits...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

S-Reits’ upcoming 2022 report cards

Source: Company announcements extracted as of 27 Jan 2023 before market opens. Five S-Reits have released their financial results or business...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

REIT Watch - S-Reits’ upcoming 2022 report cards

Source: Company announcements extracted as of 27 Jan 2023 before market opens. Five S-Reits have released their financial results or business...

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