Temasek at a Glance
Temasek is a global investment company headquartered in Singapore. We are a generational investor, seeking to make a difference always with tomorrow in mind.
We are committed to delivering sustainable value over the long term, guided by the principles of our Temasek Charter.
We have a long term investment horizon and because we invest off our own balance sheet, we are not constrained by ‘fund life’. Our investments are predominantly in equities. We do not have targets for investing by asset class, country, sector, or single name. Our investment activities are guided by our view of long term structural trends.
Our global portfolio spans a broad spectrum of industries: financial services; transportation & industrials; telecommunications, media & technology; consumer & real estate; as well as life sciences & agri-food.
Our compounded annualised Total Shareholder Return since inception in 1974 is 14% in Singapore dollar terms.
14% Total Shareholder Return since Inception
S$ Total Shareholder Return (%)
1 Total Shareholder Return in US$ terms was -3%, 5%, 11%, 12%, 14%, and 15% for 1, 10, 20, 30, 40-year, and since inception periods respectively.
(as at 31 March 2023)
We are rated Aaa/AAA by Moody’s Investors Service and S&P Global Ratings respectively.
As an institution, we have a stake in the well-being of our wider community. We recognise that environmental, social and governance factors can impact our stakeholders, as well as the long term sustainability of companies and businesses.
We believe in seeding social capital to promote a more inclusive and resilient world, so every generation prospers. Since 2003, we have been setting aside a portion of our net positive returns above our risk-adjusted cost of capital for community gifts.
These are approved by the Temasek Board before being gifted, mainly to Temasek Trust (TT), which then disburses the gifts via grants and endowments to our non-profit ecosystem including Temasek Foundation (TF), Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Stewardship Asia Centre, and Mandai Nature. To date, Temasek's gifts to TT have enabled programmes which have impacted about 2.5 million lives across Singapore and beyond.