1. You are a market veteran and have planned to introduce a mutual fund in Bangladesh. What are the structural challenges of both open-end and closed-end mutual fund in this country? To attract diverse investors, how you will design your equity based fund? Many people has poor confidence on mutual fund in this country. You need to also overcome that as new MF. Suggest a comprehensive policy to overcome these challenges.
2. Banks in this country has very few options to source fund for doing business. Also, as a developing nation, bank's corporate client base is limited. Too many banks compete for few high net worth clients in the industry. It is frustrating for the local banks when these big corporate houses borrow money from international loan market to reduce cost of borrowing. In a country with comparatively high inflation and interest rate, what bank can do to increase the diversity of their source of funds and also clients to provide loan. Your suggestions must be in harmony with our culture, infrastructure and law.