Dear readers, there have been recent ideas mooted to make Singapore stock markets a more vibrant bourse with more growth for investors. An exchange with more liquidity at the minimum.
Whenever I read or heard such nice ideas to grow Singapore stocks market for investors, I, as a retail investor felt encouraged. But given the rather lacklustre performance of the Singapore stocks markets in recent years as compared to the other stock markets (just my humble opinion), I really feel not convinced of how to further grow the Singapore stocks markets from what it is now. Hence, as encouraged as I felt in attempts to revigorated the local bourse, I could not feel excited.
What the local authorities should do is to paint a vision of the Singapore stocks markets for retail investors to visualise as an aim of growth for the Singapore stocks markets and share in the vision.
One such aim could be to grow Singapore stock markets to three times the current size in a certain timeframe. That is for Straits Times Index to achieve a 10,000 level. This will get retail investors excited.