New REIT Regulations Proposed by MAS: Here’s What Investors Should Know

11 Oct 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) released a consultation paper on Thursday which contained several proposals to strengthen the real estate investment trust (REIT) market. The stated objectives of the proposals were to enhance transparency and improve the attractiveness of REITs to issuers and ...
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Is This The End Of The Singapore Shopping Centre?

10 Oct 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
In February 2011, book store chain Borders filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Shortly after, the company was forced to liquidate its 399 stores as it was not able to secure a buyer for its business. This ended a 40-year old business. But Borders was not alone in this development. A few months earlier, ...
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Would Peter Lynch Buy CapitaMall Trust?

8 Oct 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It is often said that you can’t fit a square peg in a round hole. The square peg in this case is Real Estate Investment Trust, CapitaMall Trust (SGX: C38U). The round hole is a hypothetical slot in Peter Lynch’s growth portfolio. So, could CapitaMall Trust be the exception to the rule? Could Lynch actually ...
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How to Pick a REIT for Sustainable Dividends

3 Oct 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
My fellow Fool Ser Jing once wrote that “The next best thing from being a property owner yourself, is to own real estate investment trusts, or REITs”. It turns out that my Foolish colleague is in good company with that sentiment. Author Bobby Jayaraman, in his book Building Wealth Through REITs, sharedthat ...
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Best of the Fool: Top 3 Stories of the Week

27 Sep 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Here are three of the Motley Fool’s best stories for the week. 1. Shares That Deserve To Be Hugged How can a watch, a watch list and a dose of volatility help us invest better? Jump in here to see why volatility in the share market (which is a very natural phenomenon) is something to be embraced ...
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Shares That Deserve To Be Hugged

21 Sep 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
A helpful stranger pointed out to me the other day that my watch was telling the wrong time. I glanced at the device strapped to my wrist and shook my head. I politely explained to him that my watch might appear be telling the wrong time, from where he was standing. But as far as I was concerned it was ...
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The Three Numbers That Link Global Logistic Properties

17 Sep 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It must be an exciting time for Global Logistic Properties (SGX: MC0), given that one of its customers, TMall, is part of the soon-to-be floated Alibaba Group. GLP’s other customers read like a Who’s Who of the commercial world. They include Adidas, Coca-Cola, LVMH and Unilever. Together these companies ...
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The Three Numbers That Fortify CapitaMall Trust

3 Sep 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
From JCube in the West to Tampines Mall in the East, and from Sembawang Shopping Centre in the North to Raffles City in the South, CapitaMall Trust (SGX: C38U) has a mall for you. The Real Estate Investment Trust, which operates 16 separate retail properties in Singapore, is also one of the Garden City’s ...
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Important Differences Between Hongkong Land Holdings Limited and CapitaLand Limited That Investors Have To Know

19 Aug 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Singapore is home to a few of the largest property companies in the region. Among the Straits Times Index’s (SGX: ^STI) 30 constituents alone, there are six property pure-plays. As an investor in Singapore’s share market, it’s hard not to come across property shares. Two of the real estate companies ...
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1 Defining Reason That Made This REIT into A Great Investment

14 Aug 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs, have come a long way since they were first introduced to Singapore’s share market in 2002. They have steadily grown in popularity and there are more than 20 listed REITs on the SGX today. Their importance is further highlighted by the inclusion of Capitamall Trust ...
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