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06/05/2016

Highlight of The Week - Funds Radar
A look at funds available to investors in Singapore driven by relevant market themes followed by a side-by-side scan zeroing on three funds relevant to our Radar of that week.

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03/11/2015

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18/09/2015

18/09/2015

The second-largest telco in Singapore is facing threats from new players, especially in its vaunted pay-TV business. Can it find a new formula to sustain its position? At a meeting with StarHub staff last month, Tan Tong Hai took to the stage clad in a green football jersey. Ten members of his sen…

20/07/2015

ST Engineering announced that its CEO Tan Pheng Hock is on medical leave of absence.

In a filing this morning, ST Engineering said Tan had suffered a mild stroke and was admitted to the hospital for observation.

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16/07/2015

Homegrown boutique developer Oxley Holdings is strengthening its foothold in London's property market after launching its first overseas project, Royal Wharf, in the city last year. Oxley, once better known locally for building shoebox apartments, has agreed to acquire a 20% stake in the enlarged share capital of Galliard Group, a leading UK developer, for GBP50 million ($107 million).

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16/07/2015

Singapore’s housing market, which has posted seven straight quarterly declines in home prices, may face harder times ahead.

The latest housing data point on Wednesday showed home sales slumped 42% in June from a month earlier to the lowest this year -- fuelling concerns of further declines in prices that have already recorded the longest losing streak since 2002.

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13/07/2015

Nearly 20,000 passengers were left stranded on Friday at one of Indonesia's busiest international airports on the resort island of Bali after it was forced to close because of a volcanic eruption, an airport official said.

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13/07/2015

Malaysia appears to be on stronger footing to weather existing domestic political and external market storms compared to the 1997/1998 Asian financial crisis.

The Edge Malaysia business and investment weekly (Edge Weekly), quoting economists, reported in its latest July 13-19 issue that the country's fundamentals were much stronger today. This took into account the fact that the economy was still growing and the nation's higher foreign currency reserves.

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13/07/2015

The Ascott Limited, CapitaLand’s serviced residence arm, and Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has entered into a 50:50 partnership to set up a US$600 million ($809 million) serviced residence fund.

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13/07/2015

When Loh Boon Chye (pic) left the board of Singapore Exchange in 2012, equity trading volume on the city’s bourse had been steadily dwindling for years.

On Tuesday, the veteran Singaporean banker returns to the exchange’s recently-renovated downtown offices as its new chief executive. He will soon have to confront an issue that’s more acute than ever -- in the intervening period, the average daily value of equities traded kept dropping.

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