Keppel REIT Management, manager of Keppel REIT, has appointed Koh Wee Lih as its new CEO. The appointment takes effect on Dec 1. Koh is now CEO of AIMS APAC REIT Management, which, on Sept 8, announced that he has resigned and his last day is Nov 28. Koh will take over from Paul Tham, who is stepp...

INDUSTRY veteran Koh Wee Lih, the outgoing executive director and chief executive officer of the manager of Aims Apac Reit (AA Reit), will be joining the manager of Keppel Reit as its CEO from Dec 1.

As Covid continues into 2021 — it is now 20 months since Asians started wearing masks — a couple of research teams have found out that offices will still be needed. Last year, Allianz Real Estate’s research team undertook a major global study across 50-plus cities, examining the impact of work...

CITI Research has started a 90-day "positive catalyst watch" on CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust (CICT) in view of a distribution-in-specie (DIS) overhang removal, as well as potential operational improvement in Q4 FY2021 and distribution per unit (DPU) accretive acquisitions...

CITI Research has started a 90-day "positive catalyst watch" on CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust (CICT) in view of a distribution-in-specie (DIS) overhang removal, as well as potential operational improvement in Q4 FY2021 and distribution per unit (DPU) accretive acquisitions...

THE following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Thursday:

KEPPEL Reit has priced S$150 million notes with a fixed coupon rate of 2.07 per cent per annum due 2028, the Reit manager announced in a bourse filing on Wednesday.

Hongkong Land, perenially trading at a discount to its net asset value, announced on Sept 6 that it plans to invest up to US$500 million in a share buyback programme extending until 31st December 2022. Hongkong Land’s share price reacted positively, and has drawn attention to its still large disco...

RHB on Wednesday upgraded Keppel Reit to "buy" from "neutral", as it remains optimistic on the real estate investment trust's (Reit) long-term fundamentals. It also sees value emerging at present levels - where Keppel Reit is trading at 0.8 time its book value.

Since Sept 2002, which is as far back as the FTSE REIT Index goes, REITs have outperformed the Straits Times Index by two times. Including distributions reinvested, the FTSE REIT Index has gained 520% these 20 years while the STI, with dividends reinvested, is up just 242%. In the past 10 years, the...