Every investment or saving product has different risk and returns profile. Generally, for higher risk investors demand higher returns. For example, since stocks are riskier than fixed deposits, a rational investor will expect to earn a higher return from stocks compared to fixed deposits. In Bangladesh, there is a tendency…

Don’t you feel great at the very sight of your paycheck at the end of a month of hard work? But that feeling soon subsides when we consider how much income taxes we have to pay on our salaries. Fortunately for us, there are a few investment vehicles that allow…

In our previous post, we discussed the importance of tracking portfolio returns meticulously. In this post, we will go over the actual methodology of calculating portfolio returns. To follow the examples shown in this post it is advisable to download the excel file that we have used.

Here is the article featured by Banik Barta কোম্পানির সূচনা পর্বে বিনিয়োগ: শেয়ারবাজারের বিনিয়োগকারীদের জন্য কিছু চ্যালেঞ্জ এক দশকের বেশি সময় ধরে আমি শেয়ারবাজারের সঙ্গে সম্পৃক্ত। এ সময়ে আমি শিখেছি, অনেক কমন ধারণাই শেষ পর্যন্ত আমাদের বিভ্রান্তির কারণ হয়ে দাঁড়ায়। উদাহরণ হিসেবে সবগুলো ডিম এক ঝুড়িতে না রাখা প্রসঙ্গে ফিন্যান্স…

Why do schools have report cards for students at the end of each term? To assess if the material taught was understood by students. For stock markets, the relevant report card is portfolio return (along with relevant risk metrics). Yet, most investors (both institutional and individual) in our country, either…

What is the best time to invest in mutual funds? Often there are no correct answers. For long term investors, it usually does not matter too much. There is one exception to this rule. If you invest when the market is expensive (like the end of 2010) you will earn…

Investors in mutual funds can make a few mistakes while investing which will be detrimental to themselves and also the fund manager. Here we have listed a few that all mutual fund investors should know about.

It started a long time ago in a galaxy far far away! *Insert Star Wars theme music here* Although the line above is not entirely true, we did think of setting up an Asset Management business quite some time ago. All of us worked for BRAC EPL Stock Brokerage Limited’s…

Founders of EDGE AMC Limited, And EDGE Research And Consulting Limited, Ali Imam, Asif Khan, and Khandakar Safwan Saad, share how they started EDGE AMC And EDGE Research And Consulting and their journey to entrepreneurship, their ambition to change the capital market investment management in Bangladesh and democratize benefits of capital…

The original write-up appeared on the third issue of 26th anniversary of The Financial Express : https://bit.ly/2Lc3tIV Bangladesh’s capital market is dominated by retail investors who conduct 70 to 80 per cent of average daily trade. In developed countries, the picture is the exact opposite since the market is heavily dominated…