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.

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SGX Healthcare Index Outperformed Asian Benchmark in YTD

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<ul><li>Singapore lists comparatively more stocks in the GICS® ‘Healthcare Providers and Services’ sub-sector than the global norm, with capitalisation growth outpacing the world.</li><li>Singapore's 14 primary listings in the sub-sector generated a 12M median return of 24% (or 45% average gain excluding new listing HC Surgical Specialists' 115% gain on its initial offer price).</li><li>Four of the 14 primary listings - Singapore Medical Group, Health Management International, TalkMed Group and Singapore O&amp;G - exceeded 50% in 12M returns. The majority of the four stocks reported profit growth for either the 6M or 12M ending 31 Dec 2016 with significant increases in 12M turnover activity. </li></ul>

Singapore lists comparatively more stocks in the GICS® ‘Healthcare Providers and Services’ sub-sector than the global norm, with capitalisation growth outpacing the world.Singapore's 14 primary listings in the sub-sector generated a 12M median return of 24% (or 45% average gain excluding new listing HC Surgical Specialists' 115% gain on its initial offer price).Four of the 14 primary listings - Singapore Medical Group, Health Management International, TalkMed Group and Singapore O&amp;G - exceeded 50% in 12M returns. The majority of the four stocks reported profit growth for either the 6M or 12M ending 31 Dec 2016 with significant increases in 12M turnover activity. 

Singapore's Strongest Performing Healthcare Providers of Past Year

Asia Economist and CEO, Centennial Asia Advisors

Manu Bhaskaran

Asia Economist and CEO

Centennial Asia Advisors

At Centennial Asia Advisors, we tell it like it is. We have no vested interests, no need for a China wall, and no reason to skew our outlook any other way. With over 30 years experience covering Asia’s political economy, you can be sure our conclusions and analyses are based on the unadulterated facts. Through years of fine-tuning our research methodologies, we deliver a quality of macroeconomic analysis few other houses can match.

Centennial Asia Advisors is an independent research and advisory firm that works with governments, multilateral institutions, financial firms and leading MNCs.

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Macroeconomics

The death of <a href="http://www.rememberingleekuanyew.sg/" target="_blank">Lee Kuan Yew</a>&nbsp;takes away from Singapore the presence of the most important personality in its modern history and is a moment of deep sadness for all Singaporeans including those of us at <a href="http://www.centennialasia.com/" target="_blank">Centennial Asia</a>.His extraordinary leadership at crucial moments in Singapore&rsquo;s history - the traumatic merger and then separation with Malaysia, the confrontation with Indonesia, ethnic tensions, and countless economic challenges and crises - made what is Singapore today. His record of decisiveness and pragmatism and his success in creating strong institutions and a durable national consensus that unites the country mark him out from other leaders of developing nations.<blockquote>Some analysts have suggested that his passing could weaken Singapore, perhaps even create some political instability. The evidence suggests otherwise.</blockquote>

The death of Lee Kuan Yew&nbsp;takes away from Singapore the presence of the most important personality in its modern history and is a moment of deep sadness for all Singaporeans including those of us at Centennial Asia.His extraordinary leadership at crucial moments in Singapore&rsquo;s history - the traumatic merger and then separation with Malaysia, the confrontation with Indonesia, ethnic tensions, and countless economic challenges and crises - made what is Singapore today. His record of decisiveness and pragmatism and his success in creating strong institutions and a durable national consensus that unites the country mark him out from other leaders of developing nations.Some analysts have suggested that his passing could weaken Singapore, perhaps even create some political instability. The evidence suggests otherwise.

Singapore: Lee Kuan Yew's enduring legacy of strong institutions will see Singapore through

Singapore

Talkmed Group Limited provides medical oncology services to patients.

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Talkmed (TKMED SP)

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Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

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Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

SGX Healthcare Index Outperformed Asian Benchmark in YTD

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Singapore's Strongest Performing Healthcare Providers of Past Year

Singapore lists comparatively more stocks in the GICS® ‘Healthcare Providers and Services’ sub-sector than the global norm, with capitalisation...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Singapore: Lee Kuan Yew's enduring legacy of strong institutions will see Singapore through

The death of Lee Kuan Yew takes away from Singapore the presence of the most important personality in its modern history and is a moment of deep...

Manu Bhaskaran

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