Evaluation of investment procedure of Social Islami Bank Ltd.

Abstract

Social Islami Bank Limited (SIBL) was incorporated on 5th July, 1995 as a result of dedicated effort of a group of established Bangladeshi entrepreneurs and internationally important personalities. The bank started commercial operation on 22nd November, 1995 with a clear manifesto to demonstrate the operational meaning of particularly economy, banking and financial activities as an integrated part of Islamic code of life. Currently the bank has 119 branches in all over the Bangladesh. The bank under takes all type of banking transaction to support the development of trade and commerce in the country. The main objective of this report is to analyze and focus on the overall investment operations of SIBL. This report gives an idea about investment operation, policies and investment performance of SIBL. Trend analysis, ratio analysis has been used for preparation of this report. The officials and executives of the SIBL, Dhanmondi Branch has been interviewed for finding the approximate data which has been used in this report. Secondary data has also been collected from the annual reports and business development conference reports of SIBL, SIBL’s website, and annual reports of SIBL. To analyze and present the numerical data and values column chart, bar chart, line chart, pie chart, has been used in Microsoft Excel. To start with the investment trend and different investment and investment risk related ratios of the bank reveals that SIBL has proven to be quite mature and financially strong over the past five years. Here, all sorts of analysis have been executed, in order to analyze how efficient, liquid, secure and desirable the bank is in terms of its finance. Finally some findings have been shown from the qualitative and quantitative analysis. It has been found that the SIBL’s investment management policies are effectively shaped with all rules and regulations of the Bangladesh Bank and the Islamic Shariah. The Investment Risk Assessing and Granting Policies of SIBL are prepared by following the manual of Bangladesh Bank. From the analysis it can be concluded that overall investment performance of SIBL from 2011 to 2015 has been reasonably well.