A Singapore partnership uniting four disciplines: international trade, investment management, cargo logistics, and financial services.
We operate where capital meets commerce — quietly, since 1983.
One business day to a desk reply. Discretion presumed.
Singapore HQ Donroy Trading was incorporated in Singapore in 1983 — the year the city-state first earned its standing as Asia's preeminent financial entrepôt. We have grown alongside it.
What began as a modest shipping desk on Ang Mo Kio is today a quiet but consequential house operating across four disciplines. Our clients — sovereign trading partners, family offices, manufacturers, and institutional allocators — engage us for the same reason a 1983 client might have: discretion, durability, and a long view.
We hold no public ambitions. Our standing is measured in repeat mandates and in cargo delivered, currencies hedged, and capital quietly compounded across decades. Reliability is not our marketing — it is our operating system.
Each practice operates with its own desk and partners, yet shares a single ledger, a single mandate philosophy, and a single fiduciary standard.
We act as an extended foreign-economic department for manufacturers and traders entering ASEAN, the Gulf, and CIS markets — sourcing partners, structuring contracts, and conducting verification before a wire is sent.
Discretionary and advisory mandates across listed equities, structured credit, real assets, and pre-IPO situations — anchored in Singapore but executed across Asia-Pacific, with a discipline born of forty years of cycle exposure.
Multimodal cargo movement coordinated through the Port of Singapore — sea, air, rail, and road. Optimised routing, FCL and LCL container management, in-transit insurance, and live tracking for shipments of consequence.
Banking products, trade finance, and corporate credit lines structured under Singapore's regulatory framework — including multicurrency accounts, factoring, and bespoke instruments for cross-border commerce.
Provisional figures only. A formal quotation follows a brief consultation with the relevant desk.
Indicative figures only. Final pricing reflects sailing schedules, fuel adjustment factors, and prevailing port congestion.
Past performance is not indicative of future returns. Projections are illustrative and assume reinvestment of distributions.
A small selection of recent, anonymised mandates — illustrating the scale and discipline of the four desks.
Annualised contract movement coordinated across four shipping lines, with bonded staging in Singapore and Rotterdam. Zero claim-events over 36 months.
A discretionary multi-asset mandate for a Gulf-based family office, benchmarked against MSCI AC Asia-Pacific and outperforming by 180 bps net of fees.
Three-year supply agreement, escrow-backed, with quarterly price-collar mechanism. Documented under Singapore law.
Revolving trade finance facility supporting 12-month working-capital cycle, secured against confirmed orders from three tier-one OEM buyers.
Aggregated across 11,400 shipments — measured against contracted ETAs, exclusive of force-majeure events and port closures.
From Jakarta to Geneva, Riyadh to São Paulo — mandates serviced under a single Singapore-domiciled fiduciary structure.
Our footprint follows the trade lanes that matter — ASEAN as a home base, the Gulf and CIS as longstanding partners, Europe and the Americas as growth corridors. Mandates are coordinated centrally and executed locally, through a tested network of correspondent partners.
After a decade of yield-chasing into private credit, our desk is observing a methodical return to short-tenor trade-finance instruments. Three reasons sit behind the shift, and one of them is structural.
Read the dispatchUpdated transit-time and bunker-cost analysis across our six principal corridors.
ReadA fifteen-page memo from our investment committee, summarised.
ReadA working note for clients reviewing their supply-chain documentation.
ReadOur treasury desk's view on currency allocation for cross-border SMEs.
ReadAnnual letter from the founding partner, on the discipline of staying small enough to be useful.
ReadAn introductory call is the start of every mandate. The form opposite reaches the relevant desk directly. Discretion is presumed.
