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>THE iEdge S-Reit Index declined 5.6 per cent on a total return basis in the year to date, with declines also recorded in the FTSE EPRA Nareit Index series which track global Reits.</li><li>The 10 S-Reits which recorded largest net retail inflows in the year to date were Mapletree Logistics Trust, Keppel DC Reit, CapitaLand Ascendas Reit, Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust, CapitaLand China Trust, CapitaLand Ascott Trust, CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust, Frasers Logistics & Commercial Trust, CDL Hospitality Trusts, and ParkwayLife Reit.</li><li>These 10 S-Reits contribute S$250 million in net retail inflows, or nearly 90 per cent of the combined net retail inflows in the year to date.</li></ul>

THE iEdge S-Reit Index declined 5.6 per cent on a total return basis in the year to date, with declines also recorded in the FTSE EPRA Nareit Index series which track global Reits.The 10 S-Reits which recorded largest net retail inflows in the year to date were Mapletree Logistics Trust, Keppel DC Reit, CapitaLand Ascendas Reit, Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust, CapitaLand China Trust, CapitaLand Ascott Trust, CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust, Frasers Logistics & Commercial Trust, CDL Hospitality Trusts, and ParkwayLife Reit.These 10 S-Reits contribute S$250 million in net retail inflows, or nearly 90 per cent of the combined net retail inflows in the year to date.

REIT Watch - 10 S-Reits that top retail net inflows in the year to date

<ul><li>REIT Watch - Three S-Reits’ full-year results Among them, three reported full year financials – Keppel DC Reit (KDCReit), Sabana Industrial Reit (Sabana Reit) and Suntec Reit.</li><li>Sabana Reit, KDCReit and Suntec Reit saw year-on-year declines in DI at 7.7 per cent, 9.3 per cent and per cent respectively.</li></ul>

REIT Watch - Three S-Reits’ full-year results Among them, three reported full year financials – Keppel DC Reit (KDCReit), Sabana Industrial Reit (Sabana Reit) and Suntec Reit.Sabana Reit, KDCReit and Suntec Reit saw year-on-year declines in DI at 7.7 per cent, 9.3 per cent and per cent respectively.

REIT Watch - A sneak peek into S-Reits’ FY23 earnings

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

David Blennerhassett

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

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<li>For the better part of two decades, Singaporean real estate investment trusts (REITs) have provided an efficient and popular exposure to quality large-scale commercial properties. </li>
<li>Yet as global central banks hike interest rates to address inflationary pressures, can REITs retain their attractiveness?</li>
<li>SREITs have corrected as Singaporean interest rates have increased. The question is whether higher interest rates are baked in, and which SREITs will hold up; and which ones will not?</li>
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For the better part of two decades, Singaporean real estate investment trusts (REITs) have provided an efficient and popular exposure to quality large-scale commercial properties. 
Yet as global central banks hike interest rates to address inflationary pressures, can REITs retain their attractiveness?
SREITs have corrected as Singaporean interest rates have increased. The question is whether higher interest rates are baked in, and which SREITs will hold up; and which ones will not?


S-REITs: Investing In An Inflationary Environment

Forensic Analyst

Jason Yap, CFA

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<li>Singapore government introduced a moratorium on new data centres in 2019</li>
<li>As result, incumbent data centre REITs recalibrated their portfolio strategy including to pursue DPU and NAV growth through accretive overseas acquisitions </li>
<li>In Q2 2022, the moratorium is expected to be lifted with conditional approvals for applicants that meet certain sustainability requirements. We discuss the implications for <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> </li>
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Singapore government introduced a moratorium on new data centres in 2019
As result, incumbent data centre REITs recalibrated their portfolio strategy including to pursue DPU and NAV growth through accretive overseas acquisitions 
In Q2 2022, the moratorium is expected to be lifted with conditional approvals for applicants that meet certain sustainability requirements. We discuss the implications for Keppel DC REIT (KDCREIT SP) 


Keppel DC REIT (KDCREIT SP) - Imminent Lifting of SG Data Centre Moratorium and Its Implications

<ul><li>THE first seven months of 2023 saw the iEdge S-Reit Index gain 3.9 per cent in total return terms, reversing its 11.9 per cent decline in 2022.</li><li>This was followed by hospitality S-Reits with 5.8 per cent average total returns, after being the best performing sub-segment last year.</li><li>PLife Reit declared a distribution per unit (DPU) of 7.29 Singapore cents for H1 2023, representing an increase of 3.3 per cent year on year.</li></ul>

THE first seven months of 2023 saw the iEdge S-Reit Index gain 3.9 per cent in total return terms, reversing its 11.9 per cent decline in 2022.This was followed by hospitality S-Reits with 5.8 per cent average total returns, after being the best performing sub-segment last year.PLife Reit declared a distribution per unit (DPU) of 7.29 Singapore cents for H1 2023, representing an increase of 3.3 per cent year on year.

REIT Watch - Healthcare S-REITs remain committed to expansion strategies

Singapore

Keppel DC REIT is Asia's first pure-play data centre REIT listed on the Singapore Exchange. Keppel DC REIT's investment strategy is to principally invest, directly or indirectly, in a diversified portfolio of income-producing real estate assets which are used primarily for data centre purposes, as well as real estate related assets.

Keppel DC REIT (KDCREIT SP)

REIT Watch - 10 S-Reits that top retail net inflows in the year to date

THE iEdge S-Reit Index declined 5.6 per cent on a total return basis in the year to date, with declines also recorded in the FTSE EPRA Nareit...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

REIT Watch - A sneak peek into S-Reits’ FY23 earnings

REIT Watch - Three S-Reits’ full-year results Among them, three reported full year financials – Keppel DC Reit (KDCReit), Sabana Industrial Reit...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

S-REITs: Investing In An Inflationary Environment

Suntec, with one of the highest gearings in the office subsector, may need to go to the market cap in hand. That or divest some assets - in what is...

David Blennerhassett