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description: "Iggy's Journal: Same Overseas Exposure, Very Different Damage18 September 2026, EveningVideo ReleaseI used to treat "overseas exposure" as the warning label on a REIT. I don't think that's the sharp question anymore. The sharper one is which overseas bond market is actually setting the discount rate on those overseas properties, because three REITs with foreign exposure just got treated nothing alike.The NumbersMapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust took only a 2.3 percent cut, landing at S$1.71. CapitaLand Ascott Trust and Frasers Logistics and Commercial Trust weren't nearly as fortunate, down 27.5 percent and 27.8 percent respectively. All three REITs hold property outside Singapore. The gap between a 2.3 percent hit and a 27.8 percent one isn't explained by overseas exposure alone.What separates them is where that overseas exposure sits. Singapore's 10 year bond yield was 2.36 percent. Australia and the UK were both sitting around 5.2 percent, the US around 4.9 percent. A REIT holding assets discounted off a 2.36 percent yield is in a completely different position than one holding assets discounted off a yield more than double that.My Personal TakeI'm not reading this as a forecast for where distributions go next. What I am taking from it is a reminder that valuation risk can show up through the bond market before anything visibly changes inside the buildings themselves. If you're holding any of these three in a CPF, SRS, or dividend portfolio, the question worth asking isn't "how much overseas exposure," it's "overseas exposure to which bond market." Full breakdown of the country-by-country math is in today's video and on Substack.📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GNdkZP9w4U📩 Substack: https://investingiguana.com/p/why-singapores-236-bond-yield-is Not financial advice. Iggy's Forensic Compliance Standards apply.Cheers, Iggy 🦖"
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# Iggy's Journal: Same Overseas Exposure, Very Diffe…


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## Comments (2)

- **Fattycat · 2026-09-28T09:23:05.000Z · 👍 1**: I am waiting for their AGM. Going to ask them tough questions 😆. Share price is so depressed. Madness. 🫣😔
  - **TheInvestingIguana** (2026-09-28T15:50:06.000Z): Fair instinct, and AGMs are one of the few times retail unitholders can actually put management on the spot in front of the room. The bond math behind the price action is real though, not madness, a 5


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