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As we grow older, feelings of deja vu might become a bit more common. It is probably due to accumulated life experience or maybe the mind is just degenerating.
Anyway, when I read that e-Shang Redwood Ltd (ESR) became a substantial unitholder in Sabana REIT about a week ago, I got a feeling of deja vu.
e-Shang Redwood is a pan Asian logistics entity. Don't play, play.
This reminds me of the time when CIT tried to take over the distressed MacArthurCook Industrial REIT (MI-REIT). Chris Calvert, the CEO of CIT, who was then formerly the CEO of MI-REIT used CIT's resources to buy into MI-REIT.
There was a big fight over MI-REIT with the team led by George Wang. Fortunately, George Wang et. al. won the fight and AIMS AMP Capital Industrial REIT was formed.
In my opinion, Chris Calvert did a poor job of running MI-REIT which led to a need for massive re-capitalisation. If CIT had taken over MI-REIT, with CIT's lacklustre performance and controversy over the years, I think MI-REIT would not have done any better.
It is one thing having good assets and another having a good manager. If we have both in a REIT, we have a clear winner. However, if I must choose, I will choose a good manager because a bad one will just squander away good assets.
With Sabana REIT, I have shared how its numbers were really good at IPO and it just went downhill 3 years later. The manager has constantly struck me as self serving and mediocre and this is putting it mildly.
So, in Sabana REIT's case, a change is needed. Some might say any manager is better than the current one but, more accurately, I would say that it is difficult to do worse than the current manager.
When CIT bought a big stake in MI-REIT years ago, it was with the intention of taking over MI-REIT. Now, I believe that ESR has the intention of taking over Sabana REIT one way or another.
I am holding on to a legacy investment in Sabana REIT that is free of cost as well as units from the recent deeply discounted rights issue. So, I am very much in the black. If ESR is going to bring change to the REIT, even better.
Related post:
History with Sabana REIT.
Reference:
Sabana REIT and ESR.
ESR are the people who bought a majority stake in the manager of Cambridge Industrial Trust (CIT) not too long ago and they also own 12% of CIT.
e-Shang Redwood is a pan Asian logistics entity. Don't play, play.
This reminds me of the time when CIT tried to take over the distressed MacArthurCook Industrial REIT (MI-REIT). Chris Calvert, the CEO of CIT, who was then formerly the CEO of MI-REIT used CIT's resources to buy into MI-REIT.
There was a big fight over MI-REIT with the team led by George Wang. Fortunately, George Wang et. al. won the fight and AIMS AMP Capital Industrial REIT was formed.
In my opinion, Chris Calvert did a poor job of running MI-REIT which led to a need for massive re-capitalisation. If CIT had taken over MI-REIT, with CIT's lacklustre performance and controversy over the years, I think MI-REIT would not have done any better.
It is one thing having good assets and another having a good manager. If we have both in a REIT, we have a clear winner. However, if I must choose, I will choose a good manager because a bad one will just squander away good assets.
With Sabana REIT, I have shared how its numbers were really good at IPO and it just went downhill 3 years later. The manager has constantly struck me as self serving and mediocre and this is putting it mildly.
So, in Sabana REIT's case, a change is needed. Some might say any manager is better than the current one but, more accurately, I would say that it is difficult to do worse than the current manager.
When CIT bought a big stake in MI-REIT years ago, it was with the intention of taking over MI-REIT. Now, I believe that ESR has the intention of taking over Sabana REIT one way or another.
I am holding on to a legacy investment in Sabana REIT that is free of cost as well as units from the recent deeply discounted rights issue. So, I am very much in the black. If ESR is going to bring change to the REIT, even better.
Related post:
History with Sabana REIT.
Reference:
Sabana REIT and ESR.
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3 comments:
Hi AK,
It is quite obvious that the REIT manager is self serving and less aligned with unit holders. They seem to align their interest more towards the sponsors and to also receive acquisition and divestment fees from properties.
The future of the current management of Sabana REIT is more or less gone when the largest shareholder did not subscribe to a single share of his rights during the recent rights issue exercise.
Anyway, when is the EGM? It would be a eye opener to buy just 100 shares of the Sabana REIT to witness before my eyes the expected heated showdown with unitholders, management and the media with a bag of popcorns. :P
Hi Kevin,
I have not received any notice regarding an EGM although there is no question that one has to be convened. Akan datang. ;)
Sabana Reit to hold EGM on April 28.
http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/companies-markets/sabana-reit-to-hold-egm-on-april-28
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