In today’s briefing:
- Seatrium initiates buyback programme
- REIT Watch – Inflows into both S-Reit ETFs reach 19-month high in April
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Seatrium initiates buyback programme
- Institutions were net buyers of Singapore stocks over the four trading sessions through to May 2, with S$12.9 million of net institutional inflow, as 17 primary-listed companies conducted buybacks with a total consideration of S$28.4 million.
- Leading the net institutional inflow over the four sessions were DBS, UOB, Seatrium, City Developments, UOL Group, iFast Corporation, Singapore Tech Engineering, Singapore Exchange, Cortina Holdings, CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust and Hongkong Land Holdings.
- For the month of April, Singapore stocks booked S$225 million of net institutional inflow, following S$1.15 billion of net institutional outflow in Q1.
REIT Watch – Inflows into both S-Reit ETFs reach 19-month high in April
- Source: SGX, Bloomberg (data as of 31 March 2024).
- This is probably why the ETF industry exceeded US$11 trillion in global assets under management (AUM) in 2023, after growing 24 per cent year on year since the end of 2022, according to data from ETFGI.
- The Phillip SGX APAC Dividend Leaders REIT ETF tracks the iEdge APAC ex-Japan Dividend Leaders REIT Index, which consists of 33 REITs across Australia (52 per cent by geographical breakdown), Singapore (36 per cent), and Hong Kong (12 per cent).