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Strong fundamentals do not sell themselves. Plenty of solid businesses in the Singapore listing landscape struggle to attract institutional interest not because the underlying company is weak, but because they cannot articulate, in a form investors will actually use, why they are worth backing. The equity story is what closes that gap. Its job is […]

A company’s investor relations (IR) is tested most severely in the quarters when performance disappoints. A profit warning, a governance lapse, or an activist approach can place years of consistent disclosure under immediate scrutiny. How a company communicates in that window often shapes the market’s response. Defensive investor relations communications is the discipline that governs […]

An undersubscribed IPO costs a listed company more than the shortfall on the offer price. It leaves a mark on market credibility, investor confidence, and the company’s standing in Singapore’s capital markets that outlasts the listing day itself. It is also the kind of outcome an in-house research desk like GEM COMM’s can usually see […]

Most listed companies run investor relations (IR) reactively. IR activates around results, quietens between them, and comes back to life only when an analyst calls or an announcement forces a response. This is the structural weakness we see most often in the programmes that come to us — and GEM COMM’s in-house research desk, one […]

Why do leadership teams who have spent 18 months preparing for a Singapore listing find themselves uncertain about what they can communicate in the final weeks before it? The answer, in most cases, is the IPO quiet period. An IPO quiet period is a regulator-mandated window during which a company planning an Initial Public Offering […]

ESG investing in Asia is growing rapidly. Rising investor awareness, strong regulatory backing, and mounting evidence that companies with solid environmental, social, and governance credentials tend to deliver stronger long-term returns are all contributing to a shift that has moved well beyond the margins of institutional investment. Asia is becoming a significant hub for sustainable […]

Investor targeting is the deliberate practice of identifying, prioritising, and engaging the institutional investors most likely to take and hold a meaningful position in a listed company. The alternative, however, allowing the shareholder register to evolve passively through whoever makes contact, is more common than it should be. Most listed companies accumulate investor relations activity […]

A dual listing on SGX is not a relocation. A company already trading on Nasdaq or the NYSE keeps its home listing and adds a parallel listing in Singapore, complying with both exchanges’ rules at once rather than treating one as primary. As more US-listed companies extend into Asia, a Singapore listing has become a […]

A critical story appears shortly before the market opens. By mid-morning, two analysts have called for clarification, an institutional shareholder has emailed, and the company has still not decided who should speak on its behalf. The coverage itself is now the smaller problem. The larger one is the silence, and the longer it lasts, the […]