What do iconic properties such as Vivo City, Ascott Orchard, One Raffles Quay, and Changi Business Park have in common? Not much, at first glance. But look closer and you’ll realise that these properties are the key assets of some of Singapore’s largest real estate investment trusts (REITs). 

Singapore REITs (S-REITs) offer investors of all stripes an easy and affordable way to add the real estate asset class to their investment portfolios. Following the recent launch of Syfe’s REIT+ Portfolio, we teamed up with Singapore Exchange (SGX), Nikko Asset Management, and DollarsAndSense to hold a REIT investing seminar. The sold-out seminar was presented by Ms Emelia Tan, founding member of the Research team at SGX, Mr Calvin Neo, Product Development Director & ETF Specialist at Nikko Asset Management, and Mr Dhruv Arora, founder and CEO of Syfe. Mr Timothy Ho, Co-founder and Managing Editor of popular finance site DollarsAndSense moderated