Director, Head of Research, Smartkarma

Pranav Rao

Director, Head of Research

Smartkarma

Smartkarma unites the fragmented investment industry, connecting institutional investors, independent research providers, and corporates within a single network.

Research Reinvented

Event-Driven

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<li>Welcome to Curator’s Cut - a fortnightly roundup of standout themes from the 1,500+ insights shared on Smartkarma.</li>
<li>In this cut, we spotlight the shifting sentiment towards Indian equities, highlight the investable universe in Singapore around data centres, and draw attention to the gaming industry across continents.</li>
<li>Want to dig deeper? Comment or message with the themes you'd like to see highlighted next.</li>
</ul>


Welcome to Curator’s Cut - a fortnightly roundup of standout themes from the 1,500+ insights shared on Smartkarma.
In this cut, we spotlight the shifting sentiment towards Indian equities, highlight the investable universe in Singapore around data centres, and draw attention to the gaming industry across continents.
Want to dig deeper? Comment or message with the themes you'd like to see highlighted next.


Curator's Cut: Sentiment Shifts in India, Racking Up in Singapore & Gaming Across Borders

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>S-REITs raised over S$4.5 billion in 2026 YTD, surpassing 2025's strong fundraising, with UI Boustead REIT's IPO leading.</li><li>Keppel REIT's S$886 million preferential offering increased its portfolio value to S$11.2 billion, enhancing Singapore exposure.</li><li>CapitaLand Ascendas REIT raised S$903.5 million for acquisitions, including logistics properties and data centers in multiple countries.</li></ul>

S-REITs raised over S$4.5 billion in 2026 YTD, surpassing 2025's strong fundraising, with UI Boustead REIT's IPO leading.Keppel REIT's S$886 million preferential offering increased its portfolio value to S$11.2 billion, enhancing Singapore exposure.CapitaLand Ascendas REIT raised S$903.5 million for acquisitions, including logistics properties and data centers in multiple countries.

REIT Watch – S-REITs extend fundraising momentum in 2026

Listed Real Estate Asia, KT Capital Group

Jacob Cheng

Listed Real Estate Asia

KT Capital Group

Principal investments and advisory firm that focuses on connecting the CIS countries with East Asia.

Principal investments and advisory firm

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<li>Capital recycling is the 2026 growth engine. S-REITs are selling legacy assets at premiums to private credit, funding accretive acquisitions without dilutive equity raises at wide NAV discounts.</li>
<li>CLAR exemplifies this, divesting a legacy asset at a 32% premium to rotate SGD 1.4 bn into high-yield Japanese data centers and premium logistics, securing execution certainty.</li>
<li>Despite United States business park headwinds, CLAR boasts a fortress balance sheet with 39.7% leverage and 8.5% rental reversions, cementing its status as an institutional yield favorite.</li>
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Capital recycling is the 2026 growth engine. S-REITs are selling legacy assets at premiums to private credit, funding accretive acquisitions without dilutive equity raises at wide NAV discounts.
CLAR exemplifies this, divesting a legacy asset at a 32% premium to rotate SGD 1.4 bn into high-yield Japanese data centers and premium logistics, securing execution certainty.
Despite United States business park headwinds, CLAR boasts a fortress balance sheet with 39.7% leverage and 8.5% rental reversions, cementing its status as an institutional yield favorite.


CLAR: The Capital Recycling Masterclass Driving S-REIT Alpha

Managing Director, Golden Section Capital

Garreth Elston

Managing Director

Golden Section Equity Research

Golden Section Capital

Golden Section Capital is a private international investment, specialist independent equity research, and corporate finance consulting services provider focussing on real estate and infrastructure. 

Paid for corporate research on Real Estate and Infrastructure companies. Plus independent pieces on various real estate companies and themes.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Data centres trade as real estate but do not behave like it: value is set by secured, energised power, execution capability and regulation, not by location or floor space.</li>
<li>Valuation requires triangulation across various methodologies. The metrics that matter are contracted versus energised MW, WALE by contract type, PUE trajectory and ESG compliance against regulatory thresholds.</li>
<li>Six SGX-listed vehicles offer differentiated exposure: three pure-plays (Keppel DC REIT, Digital Core REIT, NTT DC REIT) and three diversified names (CapitaLand Ascendas REIT, Mapletree Industrial Trust, CapitaLand India Trust).</li>
</ul>


Data centres trade as real estate but do not behave like it: value is set by secured, energised power, execution capability and regulation, not by location or floor space.
Valuation requires triangulation across various methodologies. The metrics that matter are contracted versus energised MW, WALE by contract type, PUE trajectory and ESG compliance against regulatory thresholds.
Six SGX-listed vehicles offer differentiated exposure: three pure-plays (Keppel DC REIT, Digital Core REIT, NTT DC REIT) and three diversified names (CapitaLand Ascendas REIT, Mapletree Industrial Trust, CapitaLand India Trust).


<ul>
<li>Power is the product. Data centres are sold by the megawatt, not the square metre. Whoever secures the electricity controls the value.</li>
<li>The usual property metrics mislead. Cap rates and occupancy metrics, borrowed from real estate, hide the huge mandatory upgrade cycles these assets demand. Standard valuation reaches the wrong answer.</li>
<li>Governments now decide. Grid access and planning approval, not customer demand, determine which projects get built. Regulators in Singapore, Ireland and US states have become the real gatekeepers of supply.</li>
</ul>


Power is the product. Data centres are sold by the megawatt, not the square metre. Whoever secures the electricity controls the value.
The usual property metrics mislead. Cap rates and occupancy metrics, borrowed from real estate, hide the huge mandatory upgrade cycles these assets demand. Standard valuation reaches the wrong answer.
Governments now decide. Grid access and planning approval, not customer demand, determine which projects get built. Regulators in Singapore, Ireland and US states have become the real gatekeepers of supply.


Data Centres: The Asset Class Powering the Digital Economy

Singapore

CapitaLand Ascendas REIT is Singapore's first and largest listed business space and industrial real estate investment trust. It focuses on a diversified portfolio of business and industrial properties, including business and science parks, high-specification industrial properties, data centers, light industrial properties, and logistics and distribution centers across Singapore, Australia, Europe, and the US. Headquartered in Singapore, the company was established in 2002.

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CapitaLand Ascendas (CLAR SP)

Curator's Cut: Sentiment Shifts in India, Racking Up in Singapore & Gaming Across Borders

This Curator's Cut highlights changing sentiment in Indian equities, Singapore data centres, and global gaming industry. Share your theme...

Pranav Rao

REIT Watch – S-REITs extend fundraising momentum in 2026

S-REITs raised over S$4.5 billion in 2026 YTD, surpassing 2025's strong fundraising, with UI Boustead REIT's IPO leading. Keppel REIT's S$886...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

CLAR: The Capital Recycling Masterclass Driving S-REIT Alpha

Capital recycling is the 2026 growth engine. S-REITs are selling legacy assets at premiums to private credit, funding accretive acquisitions...

Jacob Cheng

Investing in Data Centres

Data centres are valued based on secured power, execution capability, and regulation, not location or floor space. Six SGX-listed vehicles offer...

Golden Section Capital

Data Centres: The Asset Class Powering the Digital Economy

From megawatts and Tier ratings to valuation, power risk and regulation, the foundations required to evaluate one of the decade's defining asset...

Golden Section Capital

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Curator's Cut: Sentiment Shifts in India, Racking Up in Singapore & Gaming Across Borders

​This Curator's Cut highlights changing sentiment in Indian equities, Singapore data centres, and global gaming industry. Share your theme...

Pranav Rao

REIT Watch – S-REITs extend fundraising momentum in 2026

S-REITs raised over S$4.5 billion in 2026 YTD, surpassing 2025's strong fundraising, with UI Boustead REIT's IPO leading. Keppel REIT's S$886...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

CLAR: The Capital Recycling Masterclass Driving S-REIT Alpha

Capital recycling is the 2026 growth engine. S-REITs are selling legacy assets at premiums to private credit, funding accretive acquisitions...

Jacob Cheng

Investing in Data Centres

​Data centres are valued based on secured power, execution capability, and regulation, not location or floor space. Six SGX-listed vehicles offer...

Golden Section Capital

Data Centres: The Asset Class Powering the Digital Economy

​From megawatts and Tier ratings to valuation, power risk and regulation, the foundations required to evaluate one of the decade's defining asset...

Golden Section Capital

This Curator's Cut highlights changing sentiment in Indian equities, Singapore data centres, and global gaming industry. Share your theme...

Data centres are valued based on secured power, execution capability, and regulation, not location or floor space. Six SGX-listed vehicles offer...

From megawatts and Tier ratings to valuation, power risk and regulation, the foundations required to evaluate one of the decade's defining asset...