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Damned to default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... are left, reduced spending on social welfare, education, defense and investments, among others. Who's left to pay the higher VAT, the solidarity levy, the increased property taxes, the luxury levies, etcetera, etcetera. Now, do you still wonder why Greece's ...

Tightrope walker

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... And for consumers, inflation reduces disposable income (at a time when the government has raised their income taxes, lifted VAT and reduced welfare spending.) To say that the current UK predicament has the BOE walking on a tightrope is an understatement. ...

Headlining the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... King and Governor all in one?) believes that the surge in prices is only temporary and had been caused by the increase in VAT, sterling's past weakness and rising commodity prices. This echoed his next-door neighbour's - the European Central Bank - view ...

Levy disaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011

Bad news is good news is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
... reform bill - an extra cost to employers. In the name of reducing the budget deficit, Obama is reportedly planning to propose a VAT (value-added tax). In the name of reducing the budget deficit, Obama is thinking of doing away with the "Bush tax cuts" ...

IFM global infra assets outperform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
Fresh from buying a German infrastructure asset worth $250 million, the new head of Industry Funds Management (IFM), Brett Himbury, said the group's infrastructure assets are performing ahead of budget. "We're nearly at the end of the financial year ...

Hold, Fold or Run

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2010
"Three coins in a fountain... which one will the fountain bless?" ( Frank Sinatra) It was a down day again on Wall Street overnight. It followed an up day that trailed a down day. Chances are, other markets would follow suit. But under current circumstances ...

VTP board backs capital return to shareholders

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
The drama that unfolded five months ago, when financial planning firm Dixon Advisory helped oust the board of listed investment company van Eyk Three Pillars, culminated this week with the proposal to return capital back to shareholders. The board and ...

Damned either way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009

VTP appoints two more directors

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
Listed investment company van Eyk Three Pillars (VTP) has appointed Stuart Nisbett, a former top executive at ANZ and Rothschild, and John Vatovec, previously a fund manager at Lowy Family Group, as board members. The appointments come less than two ...