Boardwatch is a governance and market reference for the companies listed on SGX. Every figure carries the document it came from, the class of that source, and the date it was current. This build covers the 30 Straits Times Index constituents: board, price, issued shares, listing date, CEO and chairman.
Where to start three views over the same 30 rows
What this is, and what it is not read before quoting anything
Derived, never imported. Market capitalisation is computed at render time as
price × shares outstanding, converted at one stamped rate. There is no imported
market-cap field anywhere in Boardwatch and there should never be one. Hover any derived figure to
see its arithmetic.
A gap is a finding, not a blank. Where a value could not be sourced it is left empty and named, never filled with a plausible number. The open gaps are listed under SGX Exchange Benchmarking and they are inherited by every aggregate on the site.
One snapshot, no history. This build holds a single set of prices. Nothing on the site shows a change, a trend or a growth rate, because none can be computed from one observation.
Not audited, not investment advice. Verify against the issuer's own filing before relying on anything here.
Who chairs Singapore’s largest listed companies, who runs them, and where the two are the same person. Every officer row carries the document it came from and the date that document was current. Names sourced from an aggregator rather than the issuer are marked unverified and are never quietly promoted.
Chairman role classified from the chairman’s stated title in the issuer’s own filing — one bar per role, one hue
Findings curated from the 30 rows, each traceable to a row in the table below
Officers
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How the role is classified stated title, not an assessment
Boardwatch does not judge whether a chairman is independent. It reads the title the issuer itself states in its board listing or annual report, and reports that. Four buckets:
- Executive chair — the title contains “executive chairman” without a “non-” prefix, or the chairman is also the CEO.
- Independent — the title states independence and does not state non-independence.
- Non-independent — the title states non-independence, usually on tenure or on a relationship with a substantial shareholder.
- Not stated — the issuer publishes the office as plain “Chairman” and no independence status is given in the source that could be reached. A blank is left blank.
For the externally managed vehicles the chairman and CEO are officers of the manager, not of the trust. The title field names the manager entity, and the schema does not flatten that distinction. Reading those rows as if the trust employed the officer is the single most common mistake made with this data.
The company layer as a screener: board, trading currency, last-traded price, issued shares, listing date and derived market capitalisation. Market cap is computed at render time from the stamped price and share count, never imported. Hover any derived figure for its arithmetic.
Market capitalisation derived: price × shares outstanding, converted to SGD at the stamped rate
Screener
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Known gaps a gap is a finding, not a blank
Method and provenance what each figure is, and what it is not
Universe
Market capitalisation is derived, never imported
There is no imported market-cap field anywhere in Boardwatch and there should never be one.
The figure is price × shares_outstanding in the security’s own trading
currency. Cross-currency comparison is explicit: one stamped rate, applied at read time, returned
with the figure and its as-of date. Three constituents trade in USD as secondary listings.
Source class
Every substantive value carries three companion fields: a source URL, a source class and an as-of date. Primary means a company filing, an annual report, an SGX announcement or an exchange record. Secondary means an aggregator, a media report or a mirror of a filing. 27 of the 30 share counts are primary; the 3 secondary ones are cases where the issuer’s own copy could not be reached but a verbatim reproduction of the regulatory filing could. They are flagged in the table, not promoted.
Prices
Last-traded prices come from the SGX securities feed. They are last-traded, not real time, and they carry the timestamp shown in the strip above. Nothing on this page is a live quote.
Share counts move on filings, not on a clock
Each row carries its own shares_as_of. The spread is wide by nature. Where the
only reachable source stated the figure in thousands or millions the row is marked
~Rounded and the trailing digits should be
read as padding. Treasury shares are excluded wherever the source distinguishes them.
What is not here
Directors, board committees, committee membership, remuneration, shareholdings and tenure are not in this build. Neither is the rest of the exchange: this is the index, not the market.
What 30 issuers say about the Singapore market: how much of the exchange they are, how concentrated they are, and how much of that concentration is three banks. Every figure on this tab is derived from the same 30 rows and inherits every gap listed under the SGX tab. Read the coverage note before quoting any of it.
Concentration cumulative share of the index by issuer rank — derived, hover for the arithmetic
Structure where the index capital sits, and when it listed
Readings what the arithmetic supports, and only that
Coverage a coverage gap is a finding
What this tab measures
The aggregate market capitalisation of the 30 Straits Times Index constituents, derived at render time from the stamped price and share count on each row, converted to SGD at the stamped rate. Concentration, group shares and listing cohorts are arithmetic on that one derived series. Nothing here is imported.
The denominator
What this tab does not measure
- Not the Singapore economy. No GDP, no CPI, no MAS policy band, no labour or trade series. Listed-equity capital is a narrow and lagging proxy for an economy in which government entities, statutory boards and private companies are large.
- Not the whole exchange. 30 of roughly 600 listed securities. Catalist is absent entirely: all 30 constituents are Mainboard.
- No sector classification. The “banks” grouping is three named tickers, not an industry taxonomy. Boardwatch does not carry GICS or any other sector field yet, so no sector breakdown is offered rather than an invented one.
- Not a time series. One snapshot, one price date. There is no history in this build, so no change, no trend and no growth rate can be computed. None is shown.
- Not free-float weighted. These are full issued-share market capitalisations. The index itself is free-float adjusted, so index weights differ from the shares here.
Inherited gaps
Every figure on this tab inherits the row-level gaps named under the SGX tab. The largest single one: CapitaLand Ascendas REIT is understated by about 7%, which flows straight into the aggregate and into every share computed from it. Read the gaps before quoting anything here.
About Boardwatch
The governance record for the Singapore Exchange
Who runs every listed company, what it is worth, and the document behind each of those facts. Built so that transparency, governance and investment decisions in Singapore rest on sourced filings rather than inherited guesswork.
What is Boardwatch?
The short version.
Singapore’s listed market is well regulated and badly indexed. Who chairs a company, whether that person is also the chief executive, whether the board calls them independent, when the company actually listed — all of it is public, and all of it sits scattered across annual reports, SGXNet filings and investor-relations pages in formats that resist comparison.
Where aggregators have filled the gaps, they rarely say which figure came from a filing and which came from another aggregator. The result is a market where the facts exist but the comparison does not.
Boardwatch closes that distance. One structured record across the exchange, where every substantive value carries the document it came from, the class of that source, and the date it was current. Nothing is asserted without them.
Boardwatch does not score, rate or rank companies. It reports what an issuer states, next to the filing that states it, and leaves the judgement to the reader. A rating compresses the evidence into someone else’s opinion; this keeps the evidence visible.
Coverage
The universe, and what is carried for each issuer.
The universe
Every equity listed in Singapore — Mainboard and Catalist — not one index. The Straits Times Index constituents are tracked as a named subset within that universe, because they carry most of the exchange by capitalisation and are the reference point most readers start from. They are a subset, and the site treats them as one.
What is carried for each issuer
- Identity and listing — name, legal name, ticker, board, listing status and trading currency.
- Market — last-traded price, issued shares, and a market capitalisation derived from the two.
- History — listing date, with its precision recorded where a source gives only a month or a year.
- Governance — chief executive and chairman, each with the stated title, because the title is where independence, executive status and external-manager relationships are actually disclosed.
Depth, and what is being added
The company layer above is the base. Directors, board committees and their membership, tenure against the nine-year independence cap, and remuneration are the layer that makes governance genuinely comparable across issuers rather than readable one annual report at a time. That is what is being built next.
Externally managed vehicles
For REITs and business trusts the chief executive and chairman are officers of the external manager, not of the trust. The title field names the manager entity and the schema does not flatten that distinction. Reading those rows as though the trust employed the officer is the single most common mistake made with this kind of data.
How it is built
Three rules govern everything on the site.
Derived, never imported
Market capitalisation is computed at render time as price × shares,
converted at one stamped rate. There is no imported market-cap field anywhere in Boardwatch
and there never will be. Hover any derived figure for its arithmetic.
Every value carries its source
Primary is a filing, an annual report, an SGX announcement or an exchange record. Secondary is an aggregator, a media report or a mirror of a filing. Secondary values are flagged on the page, never quietly promoted.
A gap is a finding
Where a value cannot be sourced it is left empty and named. It is never filled with a plausible number, and an empty cell is published as a result in its own right.
No issuer appears on the site before its values have been sourced. Coverage grows at the speed that standard allows, because a row that cannot be traced to a document is worth less than no row at all.
Boardwatch is a data reference. It is not audited, not investment advice, and not a recommendation to deal in any security. Verify against the issuer’s own filing before relying on anything here.
FAQs
What Boardwatch is for, and how it is built.