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.

Asia’s leading multi-asset exchange

SGX Market Strategist, Equity & Fixed Income, Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Geoff Howie

SGX Market Strategist, Equity & Fixed Income

Equity Bottom-Up

Nearly three decades ago, Tan Wang Cheow embarked on an odyssey that spanned two continents and turned the computer salesman into a coffee kingpin.
Tan, founder and Executive Chairman of SGX-listed food and beverage manufacturer Food Empire Holdings Ltd, started out as a dealer in personal computers and disk drives in the 1980s, exporting electronics products to Eastern Europe.
Monthly chartered flights from Singapore, carrying consumer electronics goods ranging from video recorders and hard disk drives to TVs and fax machines, were offloaded to local distributors in both Moscow and Almaty.
"In the '80s, telephone directories didn't exist, and phone lines were few and far between. We built our network from scratch, and many of these distributors became our friends," he recalled.

Nearly three decades ago, Tan Wang Cheow embarked on an odyssey that spanned two continents and turned the computer salesman into a coffee kingpin.
Tan, founder and Executive Chairman of SGX-listed food and beverage manufacturer Food Empire Holdings Ltd, started out as a dealer in personal computers and disk drives in the 1980s, exporting electronics products to Eastern Europe.
Monthly chartered flights from Singapore, carrying consumer electronics goods ranging from video recorders and hard disk drives to TVs and fax machines, were offloaded to local distributors in both Moscow and Almaty.
"In the '80s, telephone directories didn't exist, and phone lines were few and far between. We built our network from scratch, and many of these distributors became our friends," he recalled.

The Building of an Empire: From Computers to Coffee