Ascott Residence Trust (REIT) announce 29 rights units for every 100 existing units at a discounted price of $0.919 per share few weeks back to raise gross proceeds of approximately S$442.7 million. If you do not know what is a rights issue, you can read about it here. It is one of the way the company raise more fund to do all sort of things (acquire more property, expand business, pay debt, etc.). People generally do not like rights issue because it would dilute the equity/value that belongs to existing shareholders and it feels like the company is asking for more cash/taking the dividend back. KPO is rather neutral (secretly likes it), I guess it depends on each and every individual situation. For example, rights issue would not be good for people at later stage of their life, people using CPF or people having tight cash flow. Let's ......