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TODAY reporter wins Sias’ Most Promising Journalist of The Year award

SINGAPORE — TODAY business reporter Angela Teng, 29, has been named the Most Promising Journalist of The Year at the Securities Investors Association Singapore (Sias) Investor’s Choice Awards 2017.

TODAY business reporter Angela Teng excelled in analytical pieces as well as spot news stories. Photo: Raj Nadarajan/TODAY

TODAY business reporter Angela Teng excelled in analytical pieces as well as spot news stories. Photo: Raj Nadarajan/TODAY

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SINGAPORE — TODAY business reporter Angela Teng, 29, has been named the Most Promising Journalist of The Year at the Securities Investors Association Singapore (Sias) Investor’s Choice Awards 2017.

The Sias annual awards ceremony, now in its 18th year, was held at Mandarin Orchard Singapore yesterday night. It was attended by about 700 guests, including corporate leaders, senior management of the securities and finance industry and regulatory bodies, as well as investors, academics and members of the media.

The Financial Journalist of The Year awards seek to encourage journalists to raise their reporting standards and provide information that benefits the investing community. Ms Teng showed versatility in her craft, excelling in analytical pieces as well as spot news stories that required her pounding the streets and gaining the trust of strangers so that they open up to her.

Some big stories that Ms Teng wrote included a report on Singapore’s status as a financial hub, which had taken a knock as a result of events including exchange outages, high-profile insider trading and market manipulation probes, and serious lapses in anti-money laundering processes. The report, Finance Hub Status takes a Hit, but the Money’s on S’pore Bouncing Back, critically examined the issues affecting Singapore’s financial sector.

In another report, Crowdfunding Platforms Gaining Ground in S’pore, Ms Teng explored the practice of crowdfunding, which has been rapidly gaining momentum, and debunked the perception that investing in start-ups, for example, is only for the super-rich. And in another report, SGX Reviews its Regulations amid Raft of Delistings, she examined the factors behind companies being privatised and looked at what needed to be done to improve market liquidity.

Saying she felt very honoured to receive the award, Ms Teng thanked her editors at TODAY, newsmakers and family for their support. Having majored in English Literature in university, Ms Teng — who joined TODAY in December 2014 — faced a steep learning curve. She consequently spent most of her time reading up on business news and poring through financial reports of listed companies.

“I enjoy the experience of breaking down the complexity of the financial world and its numbers for the readers,” she said.

Other Financial Journalist Award winners this year included Lianhe Zaobao’s business correspondent Hu Yuanwen and the Business Times’ (BT) banking and finance correspondent Jamie Lee, who both won the award for Financial Journalist of the Year.

Lianhe Zaobao’s associate business editor Quek Suzane and Channel NewsAsia presenter and host of Money Mind Dawn Tan both won the award for Investor Education Journalist of the Year, while BT correspondent Claire Huang and The Straits Times’ business correspondent Grace Leong both clinched the Special Award.

For the Singapore Corporate Governance Awards, property giant CapitaLand won in the big-cap category, developer Tuan Sing Holdings topped the mid-cap category, and Sing Investments & Finance emerged victorious in the small-cap category. LOUISA TANG

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