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

iShares China CNY Bond UCITS ETF / Equity Bottom-Up

iShares China CNY Bond UCITS ETF (CNYB NA)

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Over the first four months of 2021 the Xtrackers FTSE Vietnam Swap UCITS ETF, SPDR S&amp;P 500 ETF, SPDR Straits Times Index ETF, SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF and Nikko AM Singapore STI ETF were the strongest performers of SGX’s suite of 30 ETFs, averaging 13% total returns.  </li>
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Of the five ETFs that were recipient to the highest net inflows over the four months, three were Fixed Income ETFs:  the ICBC CSOP FTSE Chinese Government Bond ETF, the iShares Barclays USD Asia High Yield Bond Index ETF and the ABF Singapore Bond Index Fund, which saw S$285 million of combined net inflows, 58% of the total net inflows.   </li>
<li>Combined AUM of the 30 ETFs is S$9.2 billion, up from S$5.5 billion 12 months ago. Equity and REIT ETFs have continued to represent 40% of the combined AUM. However, the share of Fixed Income ETF AUM within the total AUM has grown from 34% to 46%, while the share of Gold ETF AUM has declined from 27% to 16%. </li>
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Over the first four months of 2021 the Xtrackers FTSE Vietnam Swap UCITS ETF, SPDR S&amp;P 500 ETF, SPDR Straits Times Index ETF, SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF and Nikko AM Singapore STI ETF were the strongest performers of SGX’s suite of 30 ETFs, averaging 13% total returns.   

Of the five ETFs that were recipient to the highest net inflows over the four months, three were Fixed Income ETFs:  the ICBC CSOP FTSE Chinese Government Bond ETF, the iShares Barclays USD Asia High Yield Bond Index ETF and the ABF Singapore Bond Index Fund, which saw S$285 million of combined net inflows, 58% of the total net inflows.    
Combined AUM of the 30 ETFs is S$9.2 billion, up from S$5.5 billion 12 months ago. Equity and REIT ETFs have continued to represent 40% of the combined AUM. However, the share of Fixed Income ETF AUM within the total AUM has grown from 34% to 46%, while the share of Gold ETF AUM has declined from 27% to 16%. 


Equity ETFs Rank as Top YTD Performers, as Bond ETFs Capture Most Inflows 

Singapore

NikkoAM-StraitsTrading Asia ex Japan REIT ETF is an exchange-traded fund established in Singapore. The Fund's investment objective is to replicate as closely as possible, before expenses, the performance of the FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Asia ex Japan Net TR REIT Index. The Fund will invest all, or substantially all, of its assets in Index Shares in same weightings. 

NikkoAM-StraitsTrading Asia Ex Japan REIT ETF (AXJREIT SP)

NikkoAM-StraitsTrading Asia Ex Japan REIT ETF

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Equity ETFs Rank as Top YTD Performers, as Bond ETFs Capture Most Inflows

Over the first four months of 2021 the Xtrackers FTSE Vietnam Swap UCITS ETF, SPDR S&P 500 ETF, SPDR Straits Times Index ETF, SPDR Dow Jones...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)