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

Equity Bottom-Up

Frasers Centrepoint Trust / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>As discussed, Singapore 3M Sora has steeply declined from 3.034% in January to 1.563% in September. </li>
<li>Based on % floating rate debt, currency mix, and debt expiry profile, FCT SP will benefit the most among most S-REIT peers</li>
<li>FCT SP fundamentals remain solid, recording a 0.5% DPU growth and 9% rental reversion across its retail portfolio, in 1H 2025</li>
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As discussed, Singapore 3M Sora has steeply declined from 3.034% in January to 1.563% in September. 
Based on % floating rate debt, currency mix, and debt expiry profile, FCT SP will benefit the most among most S-REIT peers
FCT SP fundamentals remain solid, recording a 0.5% DPU growth and 9% rental reversion across its retail portfolio, in 1H 2025


FCT SP: One of the Top Beneficiaries from Singapore Rate Steep Decline

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.

Frasers Logistics & Commercial Trust / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>S-REITs achieved 14.4% total returns in 2025, driven by improved fundamentals and lower interest rates.  </li><li>Retail investors contributed S$961 million net inflows into S-REITs, contrasting with S$1.3 billion institutional net outflows.  </li><li>Top S-REITs by retail inflows include Mapletree Industrial Trust and Keppel DC REIT, focusing on industrial and data centre segments.</li></ul>

S-REITs achieved 14.4% total returns in 2025, driven by improved fundamentals and lower interest rates.  Retail investors contributed S$961 million net inflows into S-REITs, contrasting with S$1.3 billion institutional net outflows.  Top S-REITs by retail inflows include Mapletree Industrial Trust and Keppel DC REIT, focusing on industrial and data centre segments.

REIT Watch - 10 S-REITs which garnered over S$1 billion in total retail net inflows in 2025

<ul><li>Keppel DC REIT re-enters the STI, increasing S-REITs' combined weight to over 10%, with a market cap of S$4.9 billion.</li><li>In 1Q 2025, Keppel DC REIT's distributable income rose 59.4% year-on-year, with a 14.2% increase in distribution per unit.</li><li>Keppel DC REIT's 2024 acquisitions included Tokyo Data Centre 1 and two AI-ready hyperscale data centres in Singapore.</li></ul>

Keppel DC REIT re-enters the STI, increasing S-REITs' combined weight to over 10%, with a market cap of S$4.9 billion.In 1Q 2025, Keppel DC REIT's distributable income rose 59.4% year-on-year, with a 14.2% increase in distribution per unit.Keppel DC REIT's 2024 acquisitions included Tokyo Data Centre 1 and two AI-ready hyperscale data centres in Singapore.

REIT Watch - Keppel DC REIT scheduled to join STI from 23 June

<ul><li>Institutions net sold S$73M in Singapore stocks, with STI Banks experiencing S$701M in net institutional outflow in April.</li><li>Singtel recorded the highest net institutional inflow, with the Telecommunications Sector booking S$522M net inflow in April.</li><li>REITs saw S$74M net institutional outflow, but Frasers Centrepoint Trust led net inflow relative to market cap.</li></ul>

Institutions net sold S$73M in Singapore stocks, with STI Banks experiencing S$701M in net institutional outflow in April.Singtel recorded the highest net institutional inflow, with the Telecommunications Sector booking S$522M net inflow in April.REITs saw S$74M net institutional outflow, but Frasers Centrepoint Trust led net inflow relative to market cap.

Singapore Stocks Most Net Bought by Institutions in April

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Nicholas Tan

APAC IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Equity Capital Markets

Frasers Centrepoint Trust / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/frasers-centrepoint-trust" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:2870:1" rel="noopener">Frasers Centrepoint Trust (FCT SP)</a>  aims to raise around US$153m in order to partly fund its full acquisition of Northpoint City South Wing.</li>
<li>This will complement the company’s operations of the Northpoint City North Wing and consolidate the entire Northpoint City under its ownership.</li>
<li>In this note, we comment on the deal dynamics and run the deal through our ECM framework.</li>
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Frasers Centrepoint Trust (FCT SP)  aims to raise around US$153m in order to partly fund its full acquisition of Northpoint City South Wing.
This will complement the company’s operations of the Northpoint City North Wing and consolidate the entire Northpoint City under its ownership.
In this note, we comment on the deal dynamics and run the deal through our ECM framework.


Frasers Centrepoint Trust Placement: Not a Whole Lot of DPU Accretion

Singapore

Frasers Centrepoint Trust is a retail real estate investment trust focused on growing unitholder value through asset management, financial management and strategic investments.  The trust invests in retail properties in Singapore and overseas.

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Frasers Centrepoint Trust (FCT SP)

FCT SP: One of the Top Beneficiaries from Singapore Rate Steep Decline

Besides CICT, we think FCT SP will benefit the most from 3M SORA decline, based on debt currency mix, proportion of floating rate debt, and debt...

Jacob Cheng

REIT Watch - 10 S-REITs which garnered over S$1 billion in total retail net inflows in 2025

S-REITs achieved 14.4% total returns in 2025, driven by improved fundamentals and lower interest rates. Retail investors contributed S$961...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

REIT Watch - Keppel DC REIT scheduled to join STI from 23 June

Keppel DC REIT re-enters the STI, increasing S-REITs' combined weight to over 10%, with a market cap of S$4.9 billion. In 1Q 2025, Keppel DC...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Singapore Stocks Most Net Bought by Institutions in April

Institutions net sold S$73M in Singapore stocks, with STI Banks experiencing S$701M in net institutional outflow in April. Singtel recorded the...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Frasers Centrepoint Trust Placement: Not a Whole Lot of DPU Accretion

Frasers Centrepoint aims to raise around US$153m in order to partly fund its full acquisition of Northpoint City South Wing. In this note, we...

Nicholas Tan

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