Singapore to Invest $3.7 Billion With Funds to Lift Local Stocks

Feb. 21, 2025, 12:00 PM UTC

Singapore plans to invest S$5 billion ($3.7 billion) with fund managers to help boost the local stock market, and will start requiring some family offices to deploy a portion of their assets into domestic equities.

Regulators will also make it easier for companies to list on the city-state’s stock exchange, by switching to a more disclosure-based system for initial public offerings and speeding up the listing approval process.

The initiatives were among a host of new measures unveiled on Friday by a government-led review group that was created to help revive Singapore’s languishing stock market. While the country’s benchmark Straits ...



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