SINGAPORE: FTSE Russell has announced that there will be no changes to the constituents of the Straits Times Index (STI), following the June quarterly review.[the_ad id=”31605″]The STI reserve list, comprising the five highest ranking non-constituents of the STI by market capitalisation, will be (in order of size) Mapletree Commercial Trust, Mapletree Logistics Trust, Suntec REIT, Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust and Keppel REIT. Stocks on the reserve list will replace any constituents that become ineligible as a result of corporate actions, before the next review.
FTSE has partnered with Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), publisher of The Straits Times newspaper, and Singapore Exchange (SGX) to jointly calculate Singapore’s main stock market benchmark.
The STI is widely followed by investors as the benchmark for the Singapore market and is used as the basis for a range of financial products including Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), warrants, futures and other derivatives. FTSE is the index administrator.
The next review will take place in September 2019. The indexes are reviewed quarterly in accordance with the index ground rules to facilitate the inclusion of eligible IPO stocks. The FTSE ST methodology ensures the indexes accurately represent the investable universe for benchmarking purposes and can be easily replicated as the basis of index-linked products.