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Our portfolio comprises both listed and unlisted investments. Since 2004, our unlisted portfolio has grown steadily and now accounts for more than half of our total portfolio. Due to its steady growth, we have been reporting the mark to market value of our portfolio since 2022. Our portfolio has remained resilient with a Net Portfolio Value (NPV) of S$389 billion, up S$7 billion from last year. In fact, if we value our unlisted portfolio on a mark to market basis, our mark to market NPV would be S$420 billion with a S$31b uplift from the unlisted assets, up S$9 billion from last year. Swipe to read more on what is “mark to market” and why we are marking our unlisted portfolio to market. Read more on our performance here: https://tmsk.sg/ded86b #TemasekReview

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Temasek In public equities, we tolerate crazy earnings multiples(e.g. NVIDIA) because liquidity risk is minimal and we can easily sell at a similar multiple to the purchase. In private equities, VCs tolerate crazy earnings multiples(e.g. AI startups) because, the overly optimistic return projections are also crazy multiples, albeit at the risk of total loss of investment. However, with private equities the added risk is liquidity and despite FRS 139 being deficient on this, it would be prudent to apply a discount equal to liquidity risk when accounting for the purchase price of the crazy earnings multiple private equity and the subsequent mark-to-market determinations. The reasoning is similar to buying a new car. So tracking liquidity adjusted value at risk when managing the portfolio would be more useful.

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