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

DigiCo Infrastructure REIT / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/digico-reit" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:44091:1" rel="noopener">DigiCo REIT (DIGICO AU)</a> aims to raise over US$1bn in its Australian IPO.</li>
<li>DigiCo REIT (DREIT) aims to be a diversified owner, operator and developer of data centres, with a global portfolio and broad investment mandate across stabilised, value-add and development opportunities</li>
<li>In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.</li>
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DigiCo REIT (DIGICO AU) aims to raise over US$1bn in its Australian IPO.
DigiCo REIT (DREIT) aims to be a diversified owner, operator and developer of data centres, with a global portfolio and broad investment mandate across stabilised, value-add and development opportunities
In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.


DigiCo REIT - The Negatives - Not All Engines Are Firing

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Clarence Chu

APAC IPOs & Placements

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/keppel-dc-reit" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:85:1" rel="noopener">Keppel DC REIT (KDCREIT SP)</a> is looking to raise S$600m (US$450m) from a primary placement. The proceeds will be used to acquire interest in two data centers in Singapore.</li>
<li>The deal will be a large one to digest, accounting for 47 days of the stock’s three month ADV. That said, the acquisitions appear to be accretive to bottomline.</li>
<li>In this note, we'll run the deal through our ECM framework and comment on deal dynamics.</li>
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Keppel DC REIT (KDCREIT SP) is looking to raise S$600m (US$450m) from a primary placement. The proceeds will be used to acquire interest in two data centers in Singapore.
The deal will be a large one to digest, accounting for 47 days of the stock’s three month ADV. That said, the acquisitions appear to be accretive to bottomline.
In this note, we'll run the deal through our ECM framework and comment on deal dynamics.


KDC REIT Placement - Accretive Acquisitions Should Garner Strong Support

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 the five trading sessions from Nov 1 to 7, institutions were net sellers of Singapore stocks, resulting in a net institutional outflow of S$141 million.</li><li>Stocks that led the net institutional outflow over those five sessions were OCBC, Capitaland Ascendas Reit, CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust, Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust, Mapletree Industrial Trust, UOB, Frasers Centrepoint Trust, Suntec Reit, Frasers Logistics & Commercial Trust and Keppel.</li><li>Notably, in the November 2024 rebalance, Singapore stands out as the only Asia developed market with a net increase in MSCI Standard Index constituents.</li></ul>

Over the five trading sessions from Nov 1 to 7, institutions were net sellers of Singapore stocks, resulting in a net institutional outflow of S$141 million.Stocks that led the net institutional outflow over those five sessions were OCBC, Capitaland Ascendas Reit, CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust, Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust, Mapletree Industrial Trust, UOB, Frasers Centrepoint Trust, Suntec Reit, Frasers Logistics & Commercial Trust and Keppel.Notably, in the November 2024 rebalance, Singapore stands out as the only Asia developed market with a net increase in MSCI Standard Index constituents.

SIA Engineering resumes buybacks after reporting H1 FY2025 results

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.

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<li>If Keppel succeeds it will be the only industrial operator that successfully transforms into a global asset manager.</li>
<li>Given the industry’s history, the objective of this report is to examine Keppel’s claim that its unique position as an operator gives it a competitive pathway to success within Asset Management.</li>
<li>Keppel’s acquisition and running of M1 will serve as a lens to evaluate Keppel’s claim.</li>
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If Keppel succeeds it will be the only industrial operator that successfully transforms into a global asset manager.
Given the industry’s history, the objective of this report is to examine Keppel’s claim that its unique position as an operator gives it a competitive pathway to success within Asset Management.
Keppel’s acquisition and running of M1 will serve as a lens to evaluate Keppel’s claim.


Keppel: Does M1 Reveal an Investor-Operator Advantage? (Report 2)

<ul><li>Institutions were net sellers of Singapore stocks over the five trading sessions spanning Oct 11 to Oct 17, with S$144 million of net institutional outflow, partially reversing the preceding 10 sessions of S$251 million net inflow.</li><li>This has brought net institutional flow in the 2024 year to Oct 17, back to a net outflow of S$21 million.</li><li>Leading the net institutional outflow over the five sessions through to Oct 17 were United Overseas Bank, Singapore Telecommunications, Singapore Airlines, Capitaland Ascendas REIT, Keppel, Capitaland Integrated Commercial Trust, Genting Singapore, Seatrium, Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust and Jardine Matheson Holdings.</li></ul>

Institutions were net sellers of Singapore stocks over the five trading sessions spanning Oct 11 to Oct 17, with S$144 million of net institutional outflow, partially reversing the preceding 10 sessions of S$251 million net inflow.This has brought net institutional flow in the 2024 year to Oct 17, back to a net outflow of S$21 million.Leading the net institutional outflow over the five sessions through to Oct 17 were United Overseas Bank, Singapore Telecommunications, Singapore Airlines, Capitaland Ascendas REIT, Keppel, Capitaland Integrated Commercial Trust, Genting Singapore, Seatrium, Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust and Jardine Matheson Holdings.

CNMC, Travelite, Noel Gifts and LMS Compliance directors raise stakes

Singapore

Keppel Corporation Limited's core businesses are offshore and marine, infrastructure, property investment and development, telecommunications and transportation, energy, and engineering.

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Keppel Corp (KEP SP)

DigiCo REIT - The Negatives - Not All Engines Are Firing

DigiCo REIT (DIGICO AU) aims to raise over US$1bn in its Australian IPO. In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.

Sumeet Singh

KDC REIT Placement - Accretive Acquisitions Should Garner Strong Support

Keppel DC REIT (KDCREIT SP) is looking to raise S$600m (US$450m) from a primary placement. The proceeds will be used to acquire interest in two...

Clarence Chu

SIA Engineering resumes buybacks after reporting H1 FY2025 results

Over the five trading sessions from Nov 1 to 7, institutions were net sellers of Singapore stocks, resulting in a net institutional outflow of...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Keppel: Does M1 Reveal an Investor-Operator Advantage? (Report 2)

If Keppel succeeds it will be the only industrial operator that successfully transforms into a global asset manager. Given the industry’s history,...

Corporate Monitor Limited

CNMC, Travelite, Noel Gifts and LMS Compliance directors raise stakes

Institutions were net sellers of Singapore stocks over the five trading sessions spanning Oct 11 to Oct 17, with S$144 million of net...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

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