He was speaking at the sidelines of the media briefing by the equities market review group on Feb 21, where a whole slew of measures was announced to revive the stock market where besides the dearth of IPOs, suffered from other woes.
Singapore is not the only market that has suffered in the last few years from dipping investors’ interest and a drop in IPOs. Contrary to the usual lament of a lack of liquidity, there’s plenty around here, with risk-free rates in Singapore more than one percentage point lower versus the US.
“It is not like you have high rates and cheap assets for sale,” says Clifford Lee, global head of investment banking at DBS Group Holdings, one of the biggest IPO advisers in town. “There's ample liquidity, so much so that no one is doing a desperate sale of their assets,” explains Lee, the bank’s managing director and global head for investment banking.
