Ahsan Habib

Stock investors are becoming inactive due to ailing stocks and lack of confidence, so the number of unutilised and zero balance beneficiary owners’ (BO) accounts is soaring.

Poor dividends announced by the listed companies and forced sale of shares by merchant bankers are pushing stocks down, adding further woes to the investors whose confidence in the market has already been dented, investors and analysts said.

City of London Investment Management Company (CLIM) has come down hard on the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission for its decision to allow asset management firms to extend the tenure of closed-end mutual funds without securing approval from unitholders.

The DSEX, the benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange, is refusing to pick up even though the profits of the listed companies continued to soar in the last five years.

Bangladeshi hi-tech start-ups and SME entrepreneurs can now receive funding from local and foreign investors by pitching their ideas and enterprises on a platform of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE).

The 11 listed multinational companies of the Dhaka bourse are bagging higher profits than their local counterparts thanks to their superior skillset, research-based investment and astute management of operational costs.

In 2016, Masum Ahmad, an accountant who dabbles in the stock market on the side, had as many as seven beneficiary owner (BO) accounts in the name of his family members.

Investors will be able to file stock market-related complaints online on the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission’s (BSEC) website from tomorrow, a move aimed at expediting its redress mechanism.

Seventy-nine percent share or unit-holders, mostly 12 corporate houses, of closed-end DBH First Mutual Fund want to convert the fund into an open-end one.

The government’s recent measures to prop up the stock market appear to have failed as the unusual fall of share prices continues to rattle investors.

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Earnings of many companies drop even after three-four years of their listing in the bourses, whereas stock investors expect it will rise with the investment of the proceeds from the initial public offering.

At a time when investors are losing money on good stocks, gambling on underperforming companies is rampant.

Bangladesh hould give more focus on small and medium enterprises to materialise its vision of becoming a developed nation by 2041, SME Foundation Chairperson KM Habib Ullah said.

Institutional investors, who were supposed to be cool heads in the sea of jittery retail investors, are selling off more shares than they are buying and in so doing causing a slump.

Three heavyweight stocks Grameenphone, Brac Bank and British American Tobacco Bangladesh led the slump in the last one month

Foreign funds in the Dhaka bourse has been declining for the last six months amid a confidence crisis among the investors stemming

Almost one year has elapsed since a Chinese consortium bought 25 percent stake of the Dhaka Stock Exchange but the strategic

Most stock brokers have been incurring losses for many years owing to low turnover in the market and a lack of product diversity.

Five insurance companies’ stock prices trebled in a space of two months and then came crashing down at a time when leading insurers saw next to no movement, in a stunning case of smash-and-grab by a section of players.