Singaporean state investment giant Temasek Holdings Pte yesterday said its global portfolio reached a record S$266 billion (US$196.2 billion) in the year to March, driven by a rise in global equities.
The value of its holdings increased 19 percent from the previous fiscal year’s S$223 billion and is more than double its portfolio of S$103 billion 10 years ago, the company said in its annual report.
Net profit was S$14.5 billion from S$10.9 billion last year, said Temasek, one of the world’s biggest state-linked investment vehicles, whose holdings include top global brands such as Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore Airlines Ltd and Spanish energy giant Repsol SA.
“This was the most active year for us since the global financial crisis,” Temasek chairman Lim Boon Heng (林文興) said in a statement.
“We made S$30 billion of new investments and a record S$19 billion of divestments,” he added.
Total shareholder return, which includes dividends it pays to the Singaporean government and excludes capital injections it receives, was 19.2 percent, a sharp improvement from the previous fiscal year’s 1.5 percent.
Temasek said about half of its new investments were in Asia, followed by North America and Europe, reflecting “our balanced outlook between a growing Asia and the recovering mature markets.”
Singapore remains the firm’s biggest market, accounting for 28 percent of the total portfolio.
However, Temasek said it had been steadily expanding its holdings in China, which accounts for 27 percent of its portfolio, up from 25 percent last year and 23 percent in 2013.
“From our earlier investments in banks as broad proxies of a transforming economy, we have broadened our exposure to include sectors like insurance, consumer and technology, which are likely to benefit from the transformation of China,” it said.
The top three sectors it invested in last year were consumer financial services, life sciences and agriculture, it said.
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