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

Geoff Howie

SGX Market Strategist, Equity & Fixed Income

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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

<ul><li>With global inflation set to outpace global growth by 5% in 2022, the FTSE ST REIT Index has generated a 10% decline in total return this year, with the FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Index declining 22%.</li><li>This has brought the 5-year total return of the FTSE ST REIT Index to 15%, compared to 8% for the FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Index.</li><li>The partial rebound of the S-REIT Sector over the past month has also pared the FTSE ST REIT Index decline in total return for the 2022 year to 18 Nov to 10%, compared to the FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Index declining 22%.</li></ul>

With global inflation set to outpace global growth by 5% in 2022, the FTSE ST REIT Index has generated a 10% decline in total return this year, with the FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Index declining 22%.This has brought the 5-year total return of the FTSE ST REIT Index to 15%, compared to 8% for the FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Index.The partial rebound of the S-REIT Sector over the past month has also pared the FTSE ST REIT Index decline in total return for the 2022 year to 18 Nov to 10%, compared to the FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Index declining 22%.

S-REITs Narrow Discount to Book Value on Global Rate Outlook

CapitaLand India Trust / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>REIT Watch - CapitaLand Reits see operational growth in Q3 CLI’s funds business comprises five real estate investment trusts (Reits) and business trusts listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX).</li><li>Ascendas Reit is now known as CapitaLand Ascendas Reit; Ascott Residence Trust is now known as CapitaLand Ascott Trust; while Ascendas India Trust is changed to CapitaLand India Trust.</li></ul>

REIT Watch - CapitaLand Reits see operational growth in Q3 CLI’s funds business comprises five real estate investment trusts (Reits) and business trusts listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX).Ascendas Reit is now known as CapitaLand Ascendas Reit; Ascott Residence Trust is now known as CapitaLand Ascott Trust; while Ascendas India Trust is changed to CapitaLand India Trust.

REIT Watch - CapitaLand Reits see operational growth in Q3

<ul><li>For the quarter, Singapore’s Reits and Property Trusts (S-Reits) sector declined 7 per cent in total returns, slightly outperforming the 10 per cent decline of the broader FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Index.</li><li>Across the sub-sectors, industrial S-Reits saw the least declines, averaging -3 per cent total returns during the quarter, while office S-Reits saw the most declines, averaging -16 per cent total returns.</li><li>Digital Core Reit received net inflows of S$0.2 million from institutional investors and S million from retail investors.</li></ul>

For the quarter, Singapore’s Reits and Property Trusts (S-Reits) sector declined 7 per cent in total returns, slightly outperforming the 10 per cent decline of the broader FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Index.Across the sub-sectors, industrial S-Reits saw the least declines, averaging -3 per cent total returns during the quarter, while office S-Reits saw the most declines, averaging -16 per cent total returns.Digital Core Reit received net inflows of S$0.2 million from institutional investors and S million from retail investors.

REIT Watch - 5 S-Reits with net institutional and retail inflows in Q3 2022

<ul><li>REIT Watch - Logistics S-Reits to ride on e-commerce growth With accelerated digital transformation, shifts in consumer trends and a greater focus on supply-chain resilience, the global logistics industry remains central to the rapid growth of e-commerce.</li><li>MLT expects that the acceleration of e-commerce will continue to drive demand growth for logistics space, particularly modern logistics properties in prime locations.</li></ul>

REIT Watch - Logistics S-Reits to ride on e-commerce growth With accelerated digital transformation, shifts in consumer trends and a greater focus on supply-chain resilience, the global logistics industry remains central to the rapid growth of e-commerce.MLT expects that the acceleration of e-commerce will continue to drive demand growth for logistics space, particularly modern logistics properties in prime locations.

REIT Watch - Logistics S-Reits to ride on e-commerce growth

<ul><li>Following the broad downtrend that gripped global stocks in 1H22, most benchmarks have posted partial recoveries over the first seven weeks of 2H22.</li><li>However, the uneven global growth outlook has seen China stocks (as gauged by the FTSE China A50 Index) further decline by 10%, following the 6% decline in 1H22.</li><li>Growth, inflation, and the inflationary impact on growth has carried an uneven impact on global economic sectors and by extension sectors and industries in 1H22.</li></ul>

Following the broad downtrend that gripped global stocks in 1H22, most benchmarks have posted partial recoveries over the first seven weeks of 2H22.However, the uneven global growth outlook has seen China stocks (as gauged by the FTSE China A50 Index) further decline by 10%, following the 6% decline in 1H22.Growth, inflation, and the inflationary impact on growth has carried an uneven impact on global economic sectors and by extension sectors and industries in 1H22.

Recent Stockmarket Moves and Challenges Ahead

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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S-REITs Narrow Discount to Book Value on Global Rate Outlook

With global inflation set to outpace global growth by 5% in 2022, the FTSE ST REIT Index has generated a 10% decline in total return this year,...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

REIT Watch - CapitaLand Reits see operational growth in Q3

REIT Watch - CapitaLand Reits see operational growth in Q3 CLI’s funds business comprises five real estate investment trusts (Reits) and business...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

REIT Watch - 5 S-Reits with net institutional and retail inflows in Q3 2022

For the quarter, Singapore’s Reits and Property Trusts (S-Reits) sector declined 7 per cent in total returns, slightly outperforming the 10 per...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

REIT Watch - Logistics S-Reits to ride on e-commerce growth

REIT Watch - Logistics S-Reits to ride on e-commerce growth With accelerated digital transformation, shifts in consumer trends and a greater focus...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Recent Stockmarket Moves and Challenges Ahead

Following the broad downtrend that gripped global stocks in 1H22, most benchmarks have posted partial recoveries over the first seven weeks of...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

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