Hi Folks, welcome back to Investment Income for Life. This week I did something a little different. I got AI to help me compute a forward distribution yield for every SGX-listed REIT and stapled trust, all 39 of them, using closing prices as at Friday, 16 October 2026. The method is simple: take the latest routine distribution, annualise it (x2 for half-yearly payers, x4 for quarterly payers), and divide by the unit price. The key tweak: I told it to ignore any advanced distributions paid out before a rights issue or preferential offering for an acquisition, as well as one-off gains. Those payouts tend to distort the numbers, so stripping them out normalises the yield for sanity. Let’s dive in.
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1. The Big Picture
Across the 39 counters (excluding those not paying distributions), the average forward yield works out
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