Analyzing the roles of different types of investors in the capital market of Bangladesh

Abstract

This report is an accumulation of what I have learned from my undergraduate student life. Also, this report contains my experience from my internship from LankaBangla Securities Ltd. Primarily, I have made this report for my BUS409 course and it has three chapters in it. The first chapter contains my experience of three months in Lanka Bangla securities. It also contains student information, supervisor’s information from LankaBangla Securities ltd. Furthermore, this chapter contains the tasks that I was assigned, the learnings I got while doing those tasks, the difficulties I faced while doing the tasks. As I am a student of finance, there is no better place for me than LankaBangla Securities ltd to abridge my academic knowledge to real life experience. The second chapter is about the organization that I have worked in. I have worked in LankaBangla Securities ltd and this chapter contains a detailed description and analysis of the organization. Starting from the history, overview, accounting practices to marketing, financial, human resource practices of the organization, I tried to write about all the important aspects of LankaBangla Securities ltd. The third chapter is perhaps the most important part of this report which contains research on the topic “analyzing the roles of different types of investors in the capital market of Bangladesh”. This chapter basically talks about the importance and significance of Dhaka stock exchange. But most importantly this report contains how retail(individual), institutional and foreign investors play a role in the Dhaka Stock exchange and their contribution to the DSE. Starting from the market capitalization of these investors to the problems they are facing, I tried to cover all of the aspects required. Also, this report contains the importance of these investors to the DSE and DSE’s importance to the economy, therefore the importance of these investors for the economy of Bangladesh. In the end there are some recommendations provided by me in order to help these investors survive and help the DSE to grow and make Bangladesh move forward.