Credit Profile

As an investment company, our divestments, dividends from our portfolio and distributions from funds are used to make investments, fund business expenses, as well as pay interest and principal to bond investors, taxes to tax authorities, and dividends to our shareholder.

For the year ended 31 March 2023, Temasek made S$27 billion of divestments, which include fund distributions, and earned S$11 billion in dividend income. These amounts formed the bulk of our recurring income.

Temasek had S$22 billion of debt outstanding as at 31 March 2023, representing 6% of our net portfolio value.

Our interest expense for the year ended 31 March 2023 was about 5% of our dividend income.

As part of our T2030 strategy, we aim to build a resilient and forward looking portfolio. We maintain sufficient access to liquidity to not only serve as a buffer against shocks in this uncertain environment, but also to allow us to take advantage of investment opportunities, so as to deliver sustainable returns over the long term. We invest in high-quality assets that generate recurring income to provide us with strong and stable liquidity. We also maintain the discipline of regular divestments to generate liquidity.

Our portfolio enables us to tap into liquidity in times of stress. As at 31 March 2023, our liquid and sub-20% listed assets alone were about five times our debt outstanding. In the very unlikely extreme scenario where we have no other cash inflows, aside from using our liquidity balance, divesting a small part of our liquid and sub-20% listed assets would be sufficient to cover the total debt outstanding in under two weeks.