Update on Singapore Savings Bonds August 2016

Singapore Savings Bonds August 2016

It has been two months since I did an update on Singapore Savings Bonds. Singapore Savings Bonds is really doing badly. The effective return per year for September has fallen to a low of 1.75%.

How was Interest Rate for Singapore Savings Bonds Determined?

If you didn’t know, interest rates for Singapore Savings Bonds are determined by the average Singapore Government Securities yields in the month before the announcement. The average yield for Singapore Government Securities is between 2% to 3%.

Singapore Savings Bonds Take Up Rate

Being curious about the monthly take up rate for Singapore Savings Bonds, I extracted the below statistics from Singapore Government Securities website.

As you can see below, the strongest take up was when the Singapore Savings Bonds was initially launched in October 2015.  Starting from January 2016 onward, the take up rate fell drastically. There is slight improvement in take up rate from June 2016 onward.

MonthIssue CodeTotal Applied ($)
October 2015GX15100F413,161,000
November 2015GX15110T257,328,500
December 2015GX15120V40,987,500
January 2016GX16010N43,957,000
February 2016GX16020F28,400,500
March 2016GX16030T25,765,500
April 2016GX16040V18,989,500
May 2016GX16050Z24,678,000
June 2016GX16060X21,999,000
July 2016GX16070A25,220,000
August 2016GX16080S28,017,500

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