There is an increasing trend where public listed companies would pursue the going private option.
This is particularly so when listed companies have failed after using share-buyback to boost up their share prices.
Incidentally in a very recent case, Penang printed circuit board maker GUH Holdings Bhd’s board opt for share buyback and announced that if this same does not work […]

Due to the bull run in the stock market, the following eight new faces joined the ranks of Forbes Asia’s 2007 Malaysia Rich List, which named the 40 richest people in the country:-

New Rich & Rank
Holding
 Others

Ong Beng Seng
( Rank:12 th )
Hotel Properties
·   Currently resides in Singapore, has investments in luxury hotels, real estate and steel. […]

In earlier articles, I have mentioned that it’s important to look at the Chairman’s Statement as it might revealed what are the company’s prospect / outlook.

It is interesting to note that there are further other comments that are revealed in the Chairman’s statement – a typical example is the Chairman statement of […]

Advance Tax Ruling (ATR) was introduced during the 2007 Budget speech (1/9/2006) by Datuk Abdullah Badawi.
So what is difference between an Advance Tax Ruling compared to the Public Ruling?
Append below the contrast:
Advance Tax Ruling:

Advance Tax Ruling is the Director-General of Inland Revenue’s written interpretation on how any provision of the Income Tax Act, 1967
It applies […]

The emergence of the Islamic capital market in 2002 with the inaugural sukuk issued by the Malaysian Governement spearheaded the capital markets exponentially as it became the blue print to an increasing variety of instruments which can be used to create an efficient Islamic portfolio in line with portfolio theory and financial planning.
Increasingly, many […]