Despite last year's global stock market rally, Temasek Holdings, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, generated a shareholder return of just 1.5 percent for the 12 months ended March 31, hurt by its focus on Singapore and China.
"It's nothing to do the dance of joy over, but it's still squeezing a positive TSR (total shareholder return)" despite "paper losses" on its equity holdings," said Song Seng Wun, head of research at CIMB. "On the plus side, hopefully, is that the new net investment will help future earnings," he said, but added he expects it will take a while for the China rebalancing story to play out.........................................Full Article: Source
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