Director and Founding Member, Corporate Monitor Limited

Tan Yee Peng

Director and Founding Member

Strengthening Corporate Performance

Corporate Monitor Limited

Corporate Monitor was established to encourage better performance of companies, particularly companies listed on the SGX, and hold their management and boards to account, for the benefit of their shareholders and stakeholders.

<ul><li>The performance fee is an incentive for managers to grow the income and distributions of REITs, but half of the 41 REIT managers charge performance fees that are paid even if there is a decline in distributable income and/or distributions.</li><li>This is because the performance fee is pegged to a percentage of the REIT’s net property income (definition varies) and is paid whether this income, or a similar metric, increased or decreased.</li><li>The 5 business trusts (BTs), on the other hand, have performance fees that are pegged to an increase in distribution per unit (DPU), or beating certain DPU benchmarks. </li></ul>

The performance fee is an incentive for managers to grow the income and distributions of REITs, but half of the 41 REIT managers charge performance fees that are paid even if there is a decline in distributable income and/or distributions.This is because the performance fee is pegged to a percentage of the REIT’s net property income (definition varies) and is paid whether this income, or a similar metric, increased or decreased.The 5 business trusts (BTs), on the other hand, have performance fees that are pegged to an increase in distribution per unit (DPU), or beating certain DPU benchmarks. 

Singapore Reits & Business Trust Sector: Pseudo-Performance and Other Fees

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>400+ days ago, the TCC Group bid for <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/frasers-hospitality-trust" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:913:1" rel="noopener">Frasers Hospitality Trust (FHT SP)</a> at just over 1.05x NAV failed on a combination of vocal minority opposition and minority apathy.</li>
<li>FHT has dramatically outperformed plummeting peers over the last few months on hope TCC might re-up that bid, but weaker peers and CRE markets suggest financing could be tougher.</li>
<li>Nothing is impossible, but it might make more sense for TCC to up its stake by stealth here rather than brute force. Earnings are 7 November.</li>
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400+ days ago, the TCC Group bid for Frasers Hospitality Trust (FHT SP) at just over 1.05x NAV failed on a combination of vocal minority opposition and minority apathy.
FHT has dramatically outperformed plummeting peers over the last few months on hope TCC might re-up that bid, but weaker peers and CRE markets suggest financing could be tougher.
Nothing is impossible, but it might make more sense for TCC to up its stake by stealth here rather than brute force. Earnings are 7 November.


Frasers Hospitality - Will TCC Renew Its Takeover Offer? Market Prices Bet Yes Ahead of Earnings

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

Far East Hospitality Trust / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>The US Federal Reserve maintained its benchmark interest rate, with analysts predicting a 75 basis points cut in 2025.</li><li>The S-REIT sector maintains an average gearing ratio of 40%, with the 10 lowest averaging 33.5%.</li><li>Sasseur REIT reported a 25.9% gearing ratio in 1Q25, with a 1.6% year-on-year increase in RMB rental income.</li></ul>

The US Federal Reserve maintained its benchmark interest rate, with analysts predicting a 75 basis points cut in 2025.The S-REIT sector maintains an average gearing ratio of 40%, with the 10 lowest averaging 33.5%.Sasseur REIT reported a 25.9% gearing ratio in 1Q25, with a 1.6% year-on-year increase in RMB rental income.

REIT Watch - 10 S-REITs with lowest gearing ratios average 33.5% as investors await rate cuts

Singapore Market Roundup, Singapore Market Roundup

Singapore Market Roundup

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>RHB's Syahril Hanafiah rates Nam Cheong as 'buy' with a $2.05 target price.</li><li>CGS International names Sembcorp as a top pick with a target price of $7.68.</li><li>Chew of PhillipCapital raises TeleChoice target price to 27.5 cents on growth.</li></ul>

RHB's Syahril Hanafiah rates Nam Cheong as 'buy' with a $2.05 target price.CGS International names Sembcorp as a top pick with a target price of $7.68.Chew of PhillipCapital raises TeleChoice target price to 27.5 cents on growth.

Singapore Market Roundup (18-Mar-2026): RHB's Syahril Hanafiah rates Nam Cheong 'buy' at $2.05.

<ul><li>Chew raises TeleChoice target price to 27.5 cents due to mobile logistics growth.</li><li>RHB's Yeo maintains 'buy' on HRnetGroup, raises target price to 83 cents.</li><li>Wong raises FEHT target price to 75 cents on tourism recovery and value potential.</li></ul>

Chew raises TeleChoice target price to 27.5 cents due to mobile logistics growth.RHB's Yeo maintains 'buy' on HRnetGroup, raises target price to 83 cents.Wong raises FEHT target price to 75 cents on tourism recovery and value potential.

Singapore Market Roundup (17-Mar-2026): Chew raises TeleChoice target to 27.5 cents on growth.

Singapore

Far East Hospitality Trust is a Singapore-based stapled group that invests in a diversified portfolio of income-producing hospitality, hospitality-related, and other accommodation and lodging real estate. Its portfolio primarily comprises hotels and serviced residences located in Singapore and Japan. The Trust was listed on the Singapore Exchange on August 27, 2012, and is headquartered in Singapore.

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Far East Hospitality Trust (FEHT SP)

Singapore Reits & Business Trust Sector: Pseudo-Performance and Other Fees

The performance fee is an incentive for managers to grow the income and distributions of REITs, but half of the 41 REIT managers charge...

Corporate Monitor Limited

Frasers Hospitality - Will TCC Renew Its Takeover Offer? Market Prices Bet Yes Ahead of Earnings

Frasers Hospitality Trust is trading as if TCC might make another offer. But peers in Singapore/Asia are getting crushed, and globally CRE is in...

Travis Lundy

REIT Watch - 10 S-REITs with lowest gearing ratios average 33.5% as investors await rate cuts

The US Federal Reserve maintained its benchmark interest rate, with analysts predicting a 75 basis points cut in 2025. The S-REIT sector maintains...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Singapore Market Roundup (18-Mar-2026): RHB's Syahril Hanafiah rates Nam Cheong 'buy' at $2.05.

RHB rates Nam Cheong as 'buy' with a $2.05 target; CGS picks Sembcorp at $7.68; PhillipCapital raises TeleChoice target to 27.5 cents.

Singapore Market Roundup

Singapore Market Roundup (17-Mar-2026): Chew raises TeleChoice target to 27.5 cents on growth.

Chew raises TeleChoice target to 27.5c; RHB's Yeo maintains 'buy' on HRnetGroup, target at 83c; Wong raises FEHT target to 75c on tourism recovery.

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