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

Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Institutional investors rotated into S-REITs with S$26 million net inflows on April 3 amid market volatility.</li><li>S-REITs ended Q1 2025 with 2.8% total returns, driven by a 5.0% price gain in March.</li><li>Franklin Resources acquired 5.06% interest in Digital Core REIT, buying 969,800 units at US$0.577 each.</li></ul>

Institutional investors rotated into S-REITs with S$26 million net inflows on April 3 amid market volatility.S-REITs ended Q1 2025 with 2.8% total returns, driven by a 5.0% price gain in March.Franklin Resources acquired 5.06% interest in Digital Core REIT, buying 969,800 units at US$0.577 each.

REIT Watch - S-REITs record net institutional inflows in March as sector snaps 5-month losing streak

Capitaland India Trust / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Keppel DC REIT's FY2024 net property income rose 6.3% to S$260.3 million, with DPU increasing 0.7% to S$0.09451.  </li><li>Digital Core REIT's FY2024 distributable income rose 10.9% to US$46.0 million, driven by robust cloud and AI demand.  </li><li>Mapletree Industrial Trust's third-quarter FY2024 DPU increased 1.5%, with growth from Osaka Data Centre and Tokyo facility acquisition.</li></ul>

Keppel DC REIT's FY2024 net property income rose 6.3% to S$260.3 million, with DPU increasing 0.7% to S$0.09451.  Digital Core REIT's FY2024 distributable income rose 10.9% to US$46.0 million, driven by robust cloud and AI demand.  Mapletree Industrial Trust's third-quarter FY2024 DPU increased 1.5%, with growth from Osaka Data Centre and Tokyo facility acquisition.

REIT Watch – Data Centre S-REITs report growth in latest results

Singapore Market Roundup, Singapore Market Roundup

Singapore Market Roundup

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<ul><li>DBS may need to accelerate expansion into Malaysian market due to urgency of JS-SEZ project, according to CreditSights.</li><li>Singtel is focused on enhancing shareholder value, as confirmed by UOBKH, which also maintains a buy rating for KORE and Prime post office return mandate.</li><li>Venture Corp receives a 'buy' rating from UOB Kay Hian due to promising medium-term growth prospects, while Maybank predicts S-REIT distributions to stabilize by 2H2025 and growth in FY2026.</li></ul>

DBS may need to accelerate expansion into Malaysian market due to urgency of JS-SEZ project, according to CreditSights.Singtel is focused on enhancing shareholder value, as confirmed by UOBKH, which also maintains a buy rating for KORE and Prime post office return mandate.Venture Corp receives a 'buy' rating from UOB Kay Hian due to promising medium-term growth prospects, while Maybank predicts S-REIT distributions to stabilize by 2H2025 and growth in FY2026.

Singapore Market Roundup (21-Jan-2025): DBS must accelerate Malaysia expansion due to JS-SEZ urgency - CreditSights

<ul><li>Maybank forecasts stable S-REIT distributions in the second half of 2025 with growth expected in fiscal year 2026.</li><li>CGSI remains optimistic on Singtel and KDC despite US artificial intelligence restrictions.</li><li>UOBKH anticipates higher dividends from DBS and OCBC in the future. Maybank takes a 'neutral' stance on the Singapore healthcare sector.</li></ul>

Maybank forecasts stable S-REIT distributions in the second half of 2025 with growth expected in fiscal year 2026.CGSI remains optimistic on Singtel and KDC despite US artificial intelligence restrictions.UOBKH anticipates higher dividends from DBS and OCBC in the future. Maybank takes a 'neutral' stance on the Singapore healthcare sector.

Singapore Market Roundup (20-Jan-2025): Maybank: S-REIT distributions stable by 2H2025, grow FY2026+

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>In this note, we will take a look at the Asia Pacific IPO pipeline for 2025, with a look at ASEAN, ANZ and ADRs. </li>
<li>This list has been compiled on a best effort basis from tracking the company filings and through various other sources.</li>
<li>The deals you see in this note are only a part of our full IPO pipeline tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information on these IPOs.</li>
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In this note, we will take a look at the Asia Pacific IPO pipeline for 2025, with a look at ASEAN, ANZ and ADRs. 
This list has been compiled on a best effort basis from tracking the company filings and through various other sources.
The deals you see in this note are only a part of our full IPO pipeline tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information on these IPOs.


Aequitas 2025 Asia IPO Pipeline - ASEAN, ANZ, ADRs

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.

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Keppel DC REIT (KDCREIT SP)

REIT Watch - S-REITs record net institutional inflows in March as sector snaps 5-month losing streak

Institutional investors rotated into S-REITs with S$26 million net inflows on April 3 amid market volatility. S-REITs ended Q1 2025 with 2.8%...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

REIT Watch – Data Centre S-REITs report growth in latest results

Keppel DC REIT's FY2024 net property income rose 6.3% to S$260.3 million, with DPU increasing 0.7% to S$0.09451. Digital Core REIT's FY2024...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Singapore Market Roundup (21-Jan-2025): DBS must accelerate Malaysia expansion due to JS-SEZ urgency - CreditSights

DBS urged to accelerate expansion into Malaysia as Singtel aims to enhance shareholder value, UOBKH maintains buy ratings for KORE and Prime,...

Singapore Market Roundup

Singapore Market Roundup (20-Jan-2025): Maybank: S-REIT distributions stable by 2H2025, grow FY2026+

Maybank and UOBKH offer insights on S-REITs, Singtel, KDC, DBS, OCBC, and Singapore healthcare sector predicting stable distributions, bullish...

Singapore Market Roundup

Aequitas 2025 Asia IPO Pipeline - ASEAN, ANZ, ADRs

In this note, we will take a look at the Asia Pacific IPO pipeline for 2025, with a look at ASEAN, ANZ and ADRs, after having looked at HK, India,...

Sumeet Singh

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