There is good news and there is bad news. First the good news. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) affirms that the opening of investor accounts under the Roshan Digital Accounts from mainly the Non-Resident Pakistanis (NRPs) has been very satisfying. The NRPs accounts have grown by around 70 per cent from just under 10,000 in 2020 to over 18,000.
It has as much to do with the confidence in the Pakistan stock exchange (PSX) which has devised with the SBP a one-step simple procedure earmarked for the opening of accounts. Yet the market has attracted just 0.2pc of overseas Pakistanis to invest in the country’s equity market.
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REITs collect money from investors and deploy it in real estate projects. Photo courtesy Sana Agboatwala/File
KARACHI: After six years of radio silence from over half a dozen companies with a licence to manage real estate investment trusts (REITs), as many as six transactions worth up to Rs38 billion are likely to take place within 2021-22.
Speaking to
Dawn in a recent interview, Arif Habib Dolmen REIT Management CEO Muhammad Ejaz said his company will soon launch four REITs in addition to the two schemes that the company announced earlier this month.
REITs collect money from investors and deploy it in real estate projects. They operate like any other company but offer more transparency to investors as trustees control all assets and the entity must list on a stock exchange within three years. Small investors can then take exposure to an otherwise capital-intensive and illiquid real estate market by publicly trading REIT units just like ordinary shares.
REITs collect money from investors and deploy it in real estate projects. Photo courtesy Sana Agboatwala/File
KARACHI: After six years of radio silence from over half a dozen companies with a licence to manage real estate investment trusts (REITs), as many as six transactions worth up to Rs38 billion are likely to take place within 2021-22.
Speaking to
Dawn in a recent interview, Arif Habib Dolmen REIT Management CEO Muhammad Ejaz said his company will soon launch four REITs in addition to the two schemes that the company announced earlier this month.
REITs collect money from investors and deploy it in real estate projects. They operate like any other company but offer more transparency to investors as trustees control all assets and the entity must list on a stock exchange within three years. Small investors can then take exposure to an otherwise capital-intensive and illiquid real estate market by publicly trading REIT units just like ordinary shares.
This file photo shows newly appointed Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin. AFP/File
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin on Monday chaired the first meeting of the Capital Market Advisory Council (CMAC).
Speaking at the meeting, Mr Tarin said the establishment of CMAC was long overdue. “Capital markets can improve risk sharing and the efficiency with which capital is allocated to the real economy; thereby boosting economic growth and development,” he added.
The CMAC was established under the Capital Market Development Plan (CMPD) in April 2020 with the goal of introducing reforms in capital markets across the country.
The finance secretary briefed the council members about the purpose behind the formation of the CMAC.