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>City Developments recorded S$237M net institutional buying, while Advanced Holdings led by percentage with S$6.6M, 54% of market cap.</li><li>LHT Holdings saw S$9.5M net institutional buying, 19% of market cap, with DH Cornerstone Fund acquiring 18.45% interest.</li><li>Institutions net sold S$0.74 billion in 2H25, excluding STI Banks, net buying was S$0.18 billion.</li></ul>

City Developments recorded S$237M net institutional buying, while Advanced Holdings led by percentage with S$6.6M, 54% of market cap.LHT Holdings saw S$9.5M net institutional buying, 19% of market cap, with DH Cornerstone Fund acquiring 18.45% interest.Institutions net sold S$0.74 billion in 2H25, excluding STI Banks, net buying was S$0.18 billion.

Stocks with Largest Institutional Net Buys as % of Market Cap in 2H25

<ul><li>Institutions net bought S$481.3 million in Singapore stocks, with Marco Polo Marine and Frencken Group leading in net buying.</li><li>Marco Polo Marine secured S$100 million in ship chartering contracts and expanded its fleet with new vessels.</li><li>Frencken Group focuses on sustainable expansion with new manufacturing facilities and aims to boost semiconductor competitiveness by 2027.</li></ul>

Institutions net bought S$481.3 million in Singapore stocks, with Marco Polo Marine and Frencken Group leading in net buying.Marco Polo Marine secured S$100 million in ship chartering contracts and expanded its fleet with new vessels.Frencken Group focuses on sustainable expansion with new manufacturing facilities and aims to boost semiconductor competitiveness by 2027.

Institutions Chalk Up S$480M in Net Buying in Early October

The New Standard in Wealth Management, Wealth Management Alliance

Wealth Management Alliance

The New Standard in Wealth Management

WMA is a Singapore-based multi-family office with a Capital Markets Services license and provide fund management and investment advisory services to a small number of global UHNW clients. We also act as incubator for single-family offices, allowing them to plug into our broader ecosystem and infrastructure, and tap on our investment professionals for advice. WMA is designed around providing truly bespoke advice to each client, rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach that may not fit each client's investment objectives and risk tolerances. On top of that, we are designed so that we avoid any semblance of conflicts of interests by being compensated only by the client (which may include profit sharing), as opposed to the model that many of our peers adopt, which include compensation from a variety of third parties such as funds managers, distributors or banks. That, to us, is the easiest way to be firmly on the side of the client in every decision we make.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>The global fintech industry has had a long history but momentum gathered pace only with the advent of smartphones in the 1990s and modern artificial intelligence in the 2010s. Current market size is estimated at around USD320bn.</li><li>Singapore’s fintech industry took off in the 2010s with the support of government initiatives. Depending on definition and scope, there is a wide range in the estimated size of the industry in Singapore, but likely to be in the range of USD10-30bn. Importantly, industry projections point to double-digit annual growth in the coming years.</li><li>The key players in the Singapore fintech sector include traditional and digital banks, an array of private companies, and a handful of SGX listed counters.</li></ul>

The global fintech industry has had a long history but momentum gathered pace only with the advent of smartphones in the 1990s and modern artificial intelligence in the 2010s. Current market size is estimated at around USD320bn.Singapore’s fintech industry took off in the 2010s with the support of government initiatives. Depending on definition and scope, there is a wide range in the estimated size of the industry in Singapore, but likely to be in the range of USD10-30bn. Importantly, industry projections point to double-digit annual growth in the coming years.The key players in the Singapore fintech sector include traditional and digital banks, an array of private companies, and a handful of SGX listed counters.

Singapore Fintech Sector: Good Potential but a Few SGX Listings Thus Far

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, 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

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<li>Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.</li>
<li>On the IPO front, there was a lack of fireworks from last week's listing. This week might have some better luck.</li>
<li>On the placements front, there was no dearth of deals with raisings across the region.</li>
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Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.
On the IPO front, there was a lack of fireworks from last week's listing. This week might have some better luck.
On the placements front, there was no dearth of deals with raisings across the region.


ECM Weekly (25 August 2025)- Hansoh, Daiichi, IFAST, Guzman, Vikram, Shuandeng, Jiaxin, Forest, Aux

<ul><li>The FTSE ST Mid & Small Cap Index generated a 9% total return in 3Q25 to Aug 12, led by PropNex with a 52% gain.</li><li>The Index saw S$382 million in net institutional inflow, with Technology sector constituents accounting for S$180 million.</li><li>iFAST Corporation reported a 34.7% increase in 1HFY25 net profit, driven by growth in Hong Kong ePension business.</li></ul>

The FTSE ST Mid & Small Cap Index generated a 9% total return in 3Q25 to Aug 12, led by PropNex with a 52% gain.The Index saw S$382 million in net institutional inflow, with Technology sector constituents accounting for S$180 million.iFAST Corporation reported a 34.7% increase in 1HFY25 net profit, driven by growth in Hong Kong ePension business.

Recent Highlights of the FTSE ST Mid & Small Cap Index

Singapore

iFast Corporation Ltd. operates a funds and investments distribution platform in the Asia Pacific region.

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iFAST (IFAST SP)

Stocks with Largest Institutional Net Buys as % of Market Cap in 2H25

City Developments recorded S$237M net institutional buying, while Advanced Holdings led by percentage with S$6.6M, 54% of market cap. LHT Holdings...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Institutions Chalk Up S$480M in Net Buying in Early October

Institutions net bought S$481.3 million in Singapore stocks, with Marco Polo Marine and Frencken Group leading in net buying. Marco Polo Marine...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Singapore Fintech Sector: Good Potential but a Few SGX Listings Thus Far

The global fintech industry has had a long history but momentum gathered pace only with the advent of smartphones in the 1990s and modern...

Wealth Management Alliance

ECM Weekly (25 August 2025)- Hansoh, Daiichi, IFAST, Guzman, Vikram, Shuandeng, Jiaxin, Forest, Aux

Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.

Sumeet Singh

Recent Highlights of the FTSE ST Mid & Small Cap Index

The FTSE ST Mid & Small Cap Index generated a 9% total return in 3Q25 to Aug 12, led by PropNex with a 52% gain. The Index saw S$382 million...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

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