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Investing strategies

Singapore stocks with high yield, low expectations are what Credit Suisse prefers for the year

SINGAPORE (Jan 8): Credit Suisse is recommending Singapore investors stick with a portfolio of quality, high-yield stocks and stocks with low embedded expectations to ride out any volatility in 2019 while positioning for a market recovery.

Sector Focus

This is the year for office REITs to shine: OCBC

SINGAPORE (Jan 8): OCBC Bank is expecting Singapore office REITs to strengthen further in the near-term this year – and possibly, in the process, demand higher rents to bring about positive rental reversion.

Broker's Calls

Starhill Global REIT an attractive proxy to tourist arrivals amid retail headwinds: DBS

SINGAPORE (Dec 11): DBS Group Research is maintaining its “buy” on Starhill Global REIT (SG REIT) with an unchanged target price of 75 cents, which reflects more conservative discount rate assumptions due to a less-optimistic outlook of the trust’s

M&A

CapitaLand invests $27 mil in co-working operator for new 'office of the future' strategy

SINGAPORE (Oct 2): CapitaLand has, through its subsidiary CL Kingdom Investment (CKI), subscribed for a 50% stake in The Work Project Kingdom (TWPK) for $13.5 million, with the intention of extending shareholder loans through CKI to TWPK.

Broker's Calls

How bullish will analysts go on Suntec REIT?

SINGAPORE (July 26): CGS-CIMB Research and DBS Vickers Securities are maintaining their “add” and “buy” calls with the respective price targets of $2.08 and $2.30, after the REIT manager on Wednesday posted a 2Q DPU of 2.47 cents which came in lin

Property

Roxy-Pacific to sell Sydney CBD office building for $153.4 mil

SINGAPORE (May 4): Roxy-Pacific Holdings says its 50%-owned subsidiary, Feature-Roxy, has entered into a non-binding agreement sell its freehold property at 117 Clarence Street, Sydney, Australia, for A$153 million ($153.4 million).

Broker's Calls

Why RHB is nothing but positive on Manulife US REIT's latest acquisitions

SINGAPORE (Apr 16): RHB is maintaining its “buy” on Manulife US REIT but raising its target to US$1 from 98 US cents to factor in 1-2% higher FY18-20 DPU forecasts on contributions from its latest acquisitions.

Property

Manulife US REIT acquires two properties from sponsor for US$387 mil

SINGAPORE (Apr 13): Manulife US REIT is acquiring two office properties – namely 1750 Pennsylvania Avenue (Penn) in Washington DC and Phipps Tower (Phipps) in Buckhead, Atlanta – from its sponsor’s indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary, John Hancock L

Broker's Calls

Frasers Commercial upgraded to 'buy' on attractive valuations, Grade B recovery prospects

SINGAPORE (Apr 5): OCBC Investment Research is upgrading Frasers Commercial Trust (FCOT) to “buy” from “hold” with an unchanged fair value of $1.51 on expectations of an impending recovery of Grade B CBD Core office rental rates.

SGX America launched with opening of first office in Chicago

SINGAPORE (Oct 17): Singapore Exchange (SGX) today announced the official launch and office opening of SGX America in Chicago, US. 
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