Equity Analyst

Ravi Kumar

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>The SGX Next 50 Index systematically captures Singapore's second-order financial beneficiaries, wealth platforms, brokerages, and non-bank capital allocators, excluded from the STI's Big 3 bank-dominated universe by construction.</li>
<li>Structural tailwinds are compelling: Singapore's NBFI sector assets grew 9.7% year-on-year, securities turnover surged 66% and asset management AuM expanded at 8.8% CAGR, far outpacing banking loan growth of 2.1%.</li>
<li>Three constituents - iFAST, UOB-Kay Hian, and Yangzijiang Financial, offer fee-driven, asset-light exposure with ~0.7 STI correlation, delivering meaningful diversification alongside Singapore's core banking index.</li>
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The SGX Next 50 Index systematically captures Singapore's second-order financial beneficiaries, wealth platforms, brokerages, and non-bank capital allocators, excluded from the STI's Big 3 bank-dominated universe by construction.
Structural tailwinds are compelling: Singapore's NBFI sector assets grew 9.7% year-on-year, securities turnover surged 66% and asset management AuM expanded at 8.8% CAGR, far outpacing banking loan growth of 2.1%.
Three constituents - iFAST, UOB-Kay Hian, and Yangzijiang Financial, offer fee-driven, asset-light exposure with ~0.7 STI correlation, delivering meaningful diversification alongside Singapore's core banking index.


Beyond the Big 3: Second-Order Beneficiaries of Singapore's Financial Ecosystem

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.

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<li>The iEdge Singapore Next 50 is effectively a global growth proxy, with ~51% of revenues generated offshore, sharply reducing reliance on Singapore’s domestic and banking cycles.</li>
<li>Its mid-cap, real-asset and industrial skew creates structurally different earnings drivers from the STI, tied to trade flows, infrastructure, healthcare, and technology capex rather than credit growth.</li>
<li>The index offers diversification without governance compromise, using Singapore’s regulatory framework as a platform to access faster-growing ASEAN, Indian, and global markets.</li>
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The iEdge Singapore Next 50 is effectively a global growth proxy, with ~51% of revenues generated offshore, sharply reducing reliance on Singapore’s domestic and banking cycles.
Its mid-cap, real-asset and industrial skew creates structurally different earnings drivers from the STI, tied to trade flows, infrastructure, healthcare, and technology capex rather than credit growth.
The index offers diversification without governance compromise, using Singapore’s regulatory framework as a platform to access faster-growing ASEAN, Indian, and global markets.


The Global Footprint of the iEdge Singapore Next 50

Invest for a Sustainable Future, Impact Capital Asset Management

ICAM

Invest for a Sustainable Future

Impact Capital Asset Management

Established in August 2020, Impact Capital Asset Management Pte. Ltd. (ICAM) was conceived by seasoned professionals Deepak Mawandia and Atul Tetambe. Both have accumulated a wealth of knowledge and experience from their extensive tenures in the financial sector. In 2019, ICAM secured its RFMC license and subsequently introduced a technology-centric venture fund. By 2021, with the acquisition of its CMS license, ICAM witnessed steady growth in its assets under management. Presently, ICAM manages a portfolio exceeding USD 1 billion, diversified across various countries. Central to ICAM’s foundation is a commitment to offering a platform singularly dedicated to the best interests of its investor clients. The combined expertise of Deepak and Atul firmly establishes ICAM as a notable entity in the wealth management field.

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<li>Over the past five years, Southeast Asia’s e -commerce industry has changed from chasing market share to improving profitability.</li>
<li>Singapore’s advantage in e -commerce lies in its dense logistics network and limited industrial land.</li>
<li>Every online order ends with a digital payment, and this layer generates steady revenue for service providers.</li>
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Over the past five years, Southeast Asia’s e -commerce industry has changed from chasing market share to improving profitability.
Singapore’s advantage in e -commerce lies in its dense logistics network and limited industrial land.
Every online order ends with a digital payment, and this layer generates steady revenue for service providers.


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.

<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

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>Over five sessions, directors reported four acquisitions, substantial shareholders recorded five acquisitions and one disposal for 30 primary-listed stocks.</li><li>iWOW Technology completed a S$15.0 million placement at S$0.225 per share, attracting institutional and strategic investors.</li><li>Aztech Global's Executive Chairman increased his stake to 70.3% after acquiring 100,000 shares at S$0.715 per share.</li></ul>

Over five sessions, directors reported four acquisitions, substantial shareholders recorded five acquisitions and one disposal for 30 primary-listed stocks.iWOW Technology completed a S$15.0 million placement at S$0.225 per share, attracting institutional and strategic investors.Aztech Global's Executive Chairman increased his stake to 70.3% after acquiring 100,000 shares at S$0.715 per share.

LGI Accumulates Shares in Valuetronics & iX Biopharma

Singapore

iFAST is a global digital banking and wealth management platform. It offers a comprehensive range of investment products such as mutual funds, bonds, stocks, ETFs, and insurance, alongside services like online discretionary portfolio management, Fintech solutions, and pension administration. The company was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Singapore.

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Beyond the Big 3: Second-Order Beneficiaries of Singapore's Financial Ecosystem

The SGX Next 50 Index systematically captures Singapore's second-order financial beneficiaries, wealth platforms, brokerages, and non-bank capital...

Ravi Kumar

The Global Footprint of the iEdge Singapore Next 50

The iEdge Singapore Next 50 index delivers global growth, diversified earnings, and lower STI correlation, using Singapore governance to invest in...

Golden Section Capital

E -Commerce in Singapore

Over the past five years, Southeast Asia’s e -commerce industry has changed from chasing market share to improving profitability. Singapore’s...

ICAM

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

LGI Accumulates Shares in Valuetronics & iX Biopharma

Over five sessions, directors reported four acquisitions, substantial shareholders recorded five acquisitions and one disposal for 30...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

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Beyond the Big 3: Second-Order Beneficiaries of Singapore's Financial Ecosystem

​The SGX Next 50 Index systematically captures Singapore's second-order financial beneficiaries, wealth platforms, brokerages, and non-bank capital...

Ravi Kumar

The Global Footprint of the iEdge Singapore Next 50

​The iEdge Singapore Next 50 index delivers global growth, diversified earnings, and lower STI correlation, using Singapore governance to invest in...

Golden Section Capital

E -Commerce in Singapore

Over the past five years, Southeast Asia’s e -commerce industry has changed from chasing market share to improving profitability. Singapore’s...

ICAM

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

LGI Accumulates Shares in Valuetronics & iX Biopharma

Over five sessions, directors reported four acquisitions, substantial shareholders recorded five acquisitions and one disposal for 30...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

The SGX Next 50 Index systematically captures Singapore's second-order financial beneficiaries, wealth platforms, brokerages, and non-bank capital...

The iEdge Singapore Next 50 index delivers global growth, diversified earnings, and lower STI correlation, using Singapore governance to invest in...