Which listed companies do Bangladeshi open-end mutual funds hold? Built from the verified quarterly portfolio statements of the 35 funds ReturnKoto? tracks, this page ranks the stocks that appear most often across each fund’s largest disclosed holdings, shows which funds’ portfolios overlap most, and which equity-leaning pairs diversify each other most. Marico Bangladesh leads: it appears in the disclosed top holdings of 25 of the 30 funds that disclose named listed equities. Funds whose disclosed tops are bonds and deposits only (5 of 35) stay out of this ranking, even when the fund name says Income: some income funds still hold listed stocks and do appear here.
Fund pairs sharing the most named stocks. “Shared weight” adds up the smaller of the two funds’ weights in each shared stock, an approximate lower bound on how similar the two portfolios are.
Beximco Pharmaceuticals, BRAC Bank, Pioneer Insurance, Jamuna Bank, British American Tobacco Bangladesh, Envoy Textiles…
Funds that diversify each other most
Equity-leaning fund pairs (Growth and Balanced) with the lowest shared weight among disclosed named stocks. Same Shariah status only, so a conventional fund is not ranked against a Shariah fund just because their universes barely overlap. Each fund appears at most once. Use this when you already like two mandates and want less doubled-up stock risk.
Pick two or three funds and see exactly which named stocks they share. Weights are each fund’s own disclosed figures.
Method & caveats: based on each fund’s largest disclosed holdings from its latest verified portfolio statement (as-of dates vary by fund; most are 31 Mar 2026). Weights are shown on each fund’s own valuation basis (cost or market value, as the asset manager reports), so percentages are comparable within a fund and approximate across funds. Bonds, sukuk, term deposits, preference shares and mutual-fund units are excluded from this stock ranking. Where shown, avg cost is the fund’s own average purchase price and stmt mkt is the price in that same quarterly statement; neither is today’s DSE quote. For learning and research.
Questions people ask
Which stock is held by the most Bangladeshi mutual funds?
Among the 35 open-end funds ReturnKoto? tracks, Marico Bangladesh appears most often: it is in the disclosed top holdings of 25 funds, with weights up to 16.64% of a single fund.
Which two mutual funds have the most similar portfolios?
BCB ICL Growth Fund and ICL Balanced Fund share 17 named holdings, about 70.2% of portfolio weight, the highest overlap among the tracked funds' disclosed holdings.
Which funds diversify each other most?
CWT Community Bank Shariah Fund and Shanta Amanah Shariah Fund share only about 3.2% of disclosed named-stock weight (1 shared name), the lowest among equity-leaning pairs with the same Shariah status.
Where does this data come from?
Every figure comes from the asset managers' own quarterly portfolio statements (BSEC requires publication within 30 days of quarter-end). ReturnKoto? verifies each statement and keeps each fund's own as-of date and valuation basis.