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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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ntt-dc-reit" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:45414:1" rel="noopener">NTT DC REIT (NTTDCR SP)</a> (NDC), a data center REIT, aims to raise up to US$810m in its Singapore IPO.</li>
<li>The IPO portfolio comprises six mainly freehold data centres in the U.S., Austria and Singapore with an aggregate appraised valuation of US$1.6bn</li>
<li>We have looked at the company's past performance in our previous note. In this note, we will talk about valuations.</li>
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NTT DC REIT (NTTDCR SP) (NDC), a data center REIT, aims to raise up to US$810m in its Singapore IPO.
The IPO portfolio comprises six mainly freehold data centres in the U.S., Austria and Singapore with an aggregate appraised valuation of US$1.6bn
We have looked at the company's past performance in our previous note. In this note, we will talk about valuations.


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

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.

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<li>The Singapore stock market has performed strongly in 2025, up 22% year-to-date, the best since 2010.</li>
<li>This has come on the back of a host of positive drivers – falling funding costs, an upward re-rating, a revival in initial public offerings (IPOs), portfolio inflows, and government initiatives.</li>
<li>Looking into 2026, some of these drivers may have run their course. Notably, with inflation having troughed, the easing interest rate cycle has probably ended.</li>
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The Singapore stock market has performed strongly in 2025, up 22% year-to-date, the best since 2010.
This has come on the back of a host of positive drivers – falling funding costs, an upward re-rating, a revival in initial public offerings (IPOs), portfolio inflows, and government initiatives.
Looking into 2026, some of these drivers may have run their course. Notably, with inflation having troughed, the easing interest rate cycle has probably ended.


<ul><li>Given recent investor wariness over a global AI bubble, we think it is instructive to look at how exposed the Singapore stock market is to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) sector, both directly and indirectly.</li><li>On direct exposure, we identify companies listed on the SGX – mainly in the upstream (including data centres) and midstream segments - which are, to a large or some extent, involved in AI. Downstream AI companies are predominately end-users and applications.</li><li>As a rough guide, the market capitalization of these companies totals around SGD21.3bn, accounting for a relatively small share of about 2.7% of the aggregated capitalization of SGD773bn of the FTSE Straits Times All Share Index (which comprises the top 98% of companies in the SGX Mainboard universe).</li></ul>

Given recent investor wariness over a global AI bubble, we think it is instructive to look at how exposed the Singapore stock market is to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) sector, both directly and indirectly.On direct exposure, we identify companies listed on the SGX – mainly in the upstream (including data centres) and midstream segments - which are, to a large or some extent, involved in AI. Downstream AI companies are predominately end-users and applications.As a rough guide, the market capitalization of these companies totals around SGD21.3bn, accounting for a relatively small share of about 2.7% of the aggregated capitalization of SGD773bn of the FTSE Straits Times All Share Index (which comprises the top 98% of companies in the SGX Mainboard universe).

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<li>Of the 30 companies that constitute the Straits Times Index (STI), Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) have long been a cornerstone.</li>
<li>For investors seeking growth and diversification beyond the blue-chip giants, the iEdge Singapore Next 50 indices present a compelling hunting ground beyond the 30 largest companies on the SGX. </li>
<li>These indices track the next 50 largest stocks after the top 30 SGX stocks ranked by market capitalization, and are home to a dynamic cohort of REITs.</li>
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Of the 30 companies that constitute the Straits Times Index (STI), Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) have long been a cornerstone.
For investors seeking growth and diversification beyond the blue-chip giants, the iEdge Singapore Next 50 indices present a compelling hunting ground beyond the 30 largest companies on the SGX. 
These indices track the next 50 largest stocks after the top 30 SGX stocks ranked by market capitalization, and are home to a dynamic cohort of REITs.


REITs Beyond the STI: A Review of the REIT Components of the iEdge Singapore Next 50 Indices

Singapore

NTT DC REIT is a Singapore real estate investment trust that invests in a diversified portfolio of stabilized income-producing real estate assets globally, primarily used for data center purposes. Its portfolio includes six carrier-neutral, Tier III-equivalent data centers across the United States, Austria, and Singapore. The company was constituted on March 28, 2025, and is headquartered in Singapore.

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NTT DC REIT (NTTDCR SP)

NTT DC REIT IPO - Thoughts on Valuation

NTT DC REIT (NTTDCR SP) (NDC), a data center REIT, aims to raise up to US$810m in its Singapore IPO. In this note, we talk about valuations.

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The Global Footprint of the iEdge Singapore Next 50

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Golden Section Capital

Singapore Equity Strategy: December 2025

The Singapore stock market has performed strongly in 2025, up 22% year-to-date, the best since 2010. This has come on the back of a host of...

Wealth Management Alliance

Singapore Equity Strategy: November 2025

Given recent investor wariness over a global AI bubble, we think it is instructive to look at how exposed the Singapore stock market is to the...

Wealth Management Alliance

REITs Beyond the STI: A Review of the REIT Components of the iEdge Singapore Next 50 Indices

Large capitalization S-REITs are a cornerstone of the STI, but investors can find growth and diversification in the REITs of the iEdge Singapore...

Golden Section Capital

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NTT DC REIT IPO - Thoughts on Valuation

NTT DC REIT (NTTDCR SP) (NDC), a data center REIT, aims to raise up to US$810m in its Singapore IPO. In this note, we talk about valuations.

Sumeet Singh

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

Singapore Equity Strategy: December 2025

The Singapore stock market has performed strongly in 2025, up 22% year-to-date, the best since 2010. This has come on the back of a host of...

Wealth Management Alliance

Singapore Equity Strategy: November 2025

Given recent investor wariness over a global AI bubble, we think it is instructive to look at how exposed the Singapore stock market is to the...

Wealth Management Alliance

REITs Beyond the STI: A Review of the REIT Components of the iEdge Singapore Next 50 Indices

​Large capitalization S-REITs are a cornerstone of the STI, but investors can find growth and diversification in the REITs of the iEdge Singapore...

Golden Section Capital

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

Large capitalization S-REITs are a cornerstone of the STI, but investors can find growth and diversification in the REITs of the iEdge Singapore...