Fareast Finance Declares 12.50% Dividend


Fareast Finance & Investment Limited, a financial institution licensed by Bangladesh Bank declared 12.50% dividend in the form of 10% cash and 2.50% stock for the year 2014. The dividend was approved and declared in the presence of the company’s Honourable Directors, Shareholders, Auditors, Managing Director and Company Secretary at the fourteenth Annual General Meeting of the company held at Bashundhara Convention Center-2, Block-C, Umme Kulsum Road, Bashundhara Residential Area, Baridhara, Dhaka-1229, Bangladesh on March 25, 2015.
MA Wahhab, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company was in the chair. The meeting disclosed that in the year 2014 the company earned a net profit after tax of Tk.308.45 million and disbursed Tk.3,457.49 million in the form of lease and term finances. The total investment portfolio of the company on outstanding basis at the end of the year 2014 stood at Tk.10,330.71 million, which at the end of the year 2013 was Tk.8,697.73 million. Growth rate in the year 2014 was 18.77% over the previous year. (source: press release)