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)

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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.

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Equity Bottom-Up

ARA US Hospitality Trust / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>10 Top performing S-REITs and Trusts for Mar 18-22 MANULIFE US REAL ESTATE INV  The top five gainers among S-REITs and property trusts in the week ahead of the Friday afternoon session were: Manulife US REIT, Keppel Pacific Oak US REIT, ARA US Hospitality Trust, First REIT, and Far East Hospitality Trust.</li></ul>

10 Top performing S-REITs and Trusts for Mar 18-22 MANULIFE US REAL ESTATE INV  The top five gainers among S-REITs and property trusts in the week ahead of the Friday afternoon session were: Manulife US REIT, Keppel Pacific Oak US REIT, ARA US Hospitality Trust, First REIT, and Far East Hospitality Trust.

REIT Watch - S-REITs gain on Fed chair Powell reaffirming three rate cuts to come this year

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

David Blennerhassett

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

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<li>For the better part of two decades, Singaporean real estate investment trusts (REITs) have provided an efficient and popular exposure to quality large-scale commercial properties. </li>
<li>Yet as global central banks hike interest rates to address inflationary pressures, can REITs retain their attractiveness?</li>
<li>SREITs have corrected as Singaporean interest rates have increased. The question is whether higher interest rates are baked in, and which SREITs will hold up; and which ones will not?</li>
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For the better part of two decades, Singaporean real estate investment trusts (REITs) have provided an efficient and popular exposure to quality large-scale commercial properties. 
Yet as global central banks hike interest rates to address inflationary pressures, can REITs retain their attractiveness?
SREITs have corrected as Singaporean interest rates have increased. The question is whether higher interest rates are baked in, and which SREITs will hold up; and which ones will not?


S-REITs: Investing In An Inflationary Environment

CDL Hospitality Trusts / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>REIT Watch - Hospitality S-Reits record 21% DPU growth in FY2023 The five hospitality trusts recorded, on average, 21 per cent yoy growth in FY2023 DPU.</li><li>Four of the trusts – ARA US Hospitality Trust (ARA H-Trust), CapitaLand Ascott Trust (Clas), CDL Hospitality Trusts (CDLHT) and Far East Hospitality Trust (FEHT) – reported full-year FY2023 earnings ending Dec 31, 2023.</li></ul>

REIT Watch - Hospitality S-Reits record 21% DPU growth in FY2023 The five hospitality trusts recorded, on average, 21 per cent yoy growth in FY2023 DPU.Four of the trusts – ARA US Hospitality Trust (ARA H-Trust), CapitaLand Ascott Trust (Clas), CDL Hospitality Trusts (CDLHT) and Far East Hospitality Trust (FEHT) – reported full-year FY2023 earnings ending Dec 31, 2023.

REIT Watch - Hospitality S-Reits record 21% DPU growth in FY2023

<ul><li>Share buybacks by primary listed companies 12 - 18 May 2023 DBS, Genting Singapore, UOB, CapitaLand Investment and Thai Beverage led the net institutional outflow for the five sessions.</li><li>At S$0.044 per share, the acquisition took Lee’s total interest in Marco Polo Marine from 4.56 per cent to 4.57 per cent.</li><li>His preceding acquisition was back on Jan 12, with 5 million shares acquired at S$0.04 per share.</li></ul>

Share buybacks by primary listed companies 12 - 18 May 2023 DBS, Genting Singapore, UOB, CapitaLand Investment and Thai Beverage led the net institutional outflow for the five sessions.At S$0.044 per share, the acquisition took Lee’s total interest in Marco Polo Marine from 4.56 per cent to 4.57 per cent.His preceding acquisition was back on Jan 12, with 5 million shares acquired at S$0.04 per share.

Aztech Global executive chair adds to stake

10 in 10 with ARA US Hospitality Trust - Recovery On Track

Singapore

ARA US Hospitality Trust is a Singapore-listed stapled trust. It owns upscale select-service hotels in the US.

ARA US Hospitality Trust (ARAUS SP)

REIT Watch - S-REITs gain on Fed chair Powell reaffirming three rate cuts to come this year

10 Top performing S-REITs and Trusts for Mar 18-22 MANULIFE US REAL ESTATE INV The top five gainers among S-REITs and property trusts in the week...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

S-REITs: Investing In An Inflationary Environment

Suntec, with one of the highest gearings in the office subsector, may need to go to the market cap in hand. That or divest some assets - in what is...

David Blennerhassett

REIT Watch - Hospitality S-Reits record 21% DPU growth in FY2023

REIT Watch - Hospitality S-Reits record 21% DPU growth in FY2023 The five hospitality trusts recorded, on average, 21 per cent yoy growth in...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Aztech Global executive chair adds to stake

Share buybacks by primary listed companies 12 - 18 May 2023 DBS, Genting Singapore, UOB, CapitaLand Investment and Thai Beverage led the net...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

10 in 10 with ARA US Hospitality Trust - Recovery On Track

10 in 10 with ARA US Hospitality Trust - Recovery On Track

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)