The latest buzz in Singapore’s financial market is the launch of Astrea V PE Bond, a retail private equity bond by a Temasek unit. If you have not heard about it, you do not have much to lose. But if you are contemplating to subscribe to it, you should continue to read.

Just google “Astrea V Bond”, you can see that it has already been discussed by many financial bloggers. Many expressed their enthusiasm for the new launch. You can take a look at the short video clip to have a grasp of it.

There was a similar issue last year, Astrea IV Bond, which was 7.4 times oversubscribed. Wow…

I guess the excitement is due to the reason that many people tried to apply the bond last year but couldn’t get allocated, and our eyes tend to light up when we see the things we cannot get.