BT Mark To Market

Synopsis: Listen to Senior Correspondent Ben Paul's analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore in this podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times . A well-known loophole that allows major shareholders to take their companies private more easily is back in the spotlight with the current lowball offer for TTJ. Ben Paul explains what investors should...

Synopsis: Listen to Senior Correspondent Ben Paul's analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore in this podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times . Why is the Sembmarine-Keppel O&M merger happening now, after so many years of market speculation? What does it all mean for Sembmarine, and is its stock worth owning now? Ben Paul has the answers. H...

Synopsis: Listen to Ben Paul's analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore in this podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times . How did the sponsor of Mapletree Commercial Trust and Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust save their proposed merger? Senior Correspondent Ben Paul gives his take and offers investment views on the two Reits.  Highli...

Synopsis: Listen to Ben Paul's analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore in this podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times . In this 17th episode of the Mark To Market podcast, senior correspondent Ben Paul looks at how the Ukraine war is pulling the risk of shifting geopolitics sharply into focus for investors and corporate boards.  Highlig...

Synopsis: Listen to Ben Paul's analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore in this podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times . In this 16th episode of the Mark To Market podcast, senior correspondent Ben Paul delves into why the latest real estate investment trust (Reit) mergers seem to be facing resistance, and responds to criticism of his column...

Synopsis: Listen to Ben Paul's analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore in this podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times. In this 15th episode of the Mark To Market podcast, senior correspondent Ben Paul talks about why investors should tread carefully during the first few months of 2022, and where Peter Lynch wannabes might find multibagger st...

Synopsis: Listen to Ben Paul's analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore in this podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times. In this 14th episode of the Mark To Market podcast, BT's senior correspondent Ben Paul surveys placements that Singapore-listed Reits have done this year, and explains why investors should be wary of the discounts at which t...

Synopsis: Listen to Ben Paul's analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore in this podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times . In this 13th episode of the Mark To Market podcast, BT's senior correspondent Ben Paul delves into the issue of why Reit mergers have drawn controversy; what’s driving these deals; and how investors can protect themse...

Synopsis: Listen to Ben Paul's analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore in this podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times. In this 12th episode of the Mark To Market podcast, BT's senior correspondent Ben Paul looks at how Straits Trading’s efforts to transform itself have sparked a more than 50 per cent rally in its stock price this year....

Synopsis: Listen to Ben Paul's analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore in this podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times. In this 11th episode of the Mark To Market podcast, BT's senior correspondent Ben Paul examines the long term performance of the Singapore market, and offers three strategies to beat the Straits Times Index going forward.&nb...

Synopsis: Listen to Ben Paul's analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore in this podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times. In this 10th episode of the Mark To Market podcast, BT's senior correspondent Ben Paul talks about CapitaLand's big restructuring exercise, which has made it the third best performing STI component stock so far this year.&nb...

Synopsis: Listen to Ben Paul's analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore in this new podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times. In this ninth episode of the Mark To Market podcast, BT's senior correspondent Ben Paul delves into Sembcorp Marine's proposals to raise a further S$1.5 billion through another deeply discounted rights issue and combine...

BT Mark To Market Ep 8: Holding corporate boards to account 16:44 min Synopsis: Listen to Ben Paul's analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore in this podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times. In this eighth episode of the Mark To Market podcast, BT's senior correspondent Ben Paul talks to Shinbo Won, the Asia head of BlackRock Investment Stewar...

BT Mark To Market Ep 7: How to invest like Warren Buffett 11:25 min Synopsis: Listen to Ben Paul's analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore in this new podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times. In this seventh episode of the Mark To Market podcast, BT's senior correspondent Ben Paul talks about the investing phenomenon that is Warren Buffett, a...

BT Mark To Market Ep 6: How to ride the next phase of the bull market 12:11 min Synopsis: Listen to Ben Paul's analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore in this new podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times. In this sixth episode of the Mark To Market podcast, BT's senior correspondent Ben Paul delves into why so many Singapore stocks are still t...

BT Mark To Market Ep 5: How to invest in an overvalued market 8:34 min Listen to Ben Paul's analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore in this new podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times. In this fifth episode of the Mark To Market podcast, BT's senior correspondent Ben Paul talks about how to invest in the market at a time when Covid-19 benefic...

BT Mark To Market Ep 4: GameStop short squeeze and the power of retail investors 13:26 min Listen to Ben Paul's analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore in this podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times. In this fourth episode of the Mark To Market podcast, senior correspondent Ben Paul examines how the short squeeze of US-listed GameStop has fo...

BT Mark To Market Ep 3: Opportunities and risks for stock investors in 2021 11:21 min Synopsis: Listen to Ben Paul's analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore, in this new podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times. In this third episode of the Mark To Market podcast, BT's senior correspondent Ben Paul provides his outlook for the markets in...

BT Mark To Market Ep 2: Dividend-yielding stocks and Reits 12:14 min Synopsis: Listen to Ben Paul's analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore, in this new podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times. BT's senior correspondent Ben Paul talks about the topic of investing in dividend-yielding stocks and real estate investment trusts (Reits). He will e...

BT Mark To Market Ep 1: Why investors shouldn't ignore the underperforming Singapore market in the Covid era 10:56 min Synopsis: Listen to Ben Paul's analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore, in this new podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times. BT's senior correspondent Ben Paul talks about what’s driving stock markets around the world i...