KASB, one of the oldest capital markets businesses in Pakistan, is proud to announce the winners of its second Inter-university Stock Trading Competition KASB Trading Titans 2.0. The Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi student Zain Ahmed takes the top position with a portfolio return of 147% followed by IBA Sukkur student Rahool Kumar with a portfolio return of 143%.
The winner was awarded PKR 50,000 for the trading account. The top 5 winners were also offered Management Trainee positions and the top 20 best-performing students got awards of PKR 5,000 for trading.
Each year, the KASB Trading Titans competition challenges students to trade using a virtual currency of 1 million and build their portfolio using the KTrade app – the most popular stock trading application in Pakistan. Students also get access to the research portal, reports, technical and fundamental analysis for free.
KASB’s goal is to democratize access to financial investment and to help transform people’s lives by helping them make better financial decisions.
Students all around Pakistan participated in Trading Titans. More than 2,000 students in 25 universities have learned about investments and finance through KTrade and the training sessions conducted by KASB’s team.
The winning student with top 5 students details are as follows:
| Name | University | City | Portfolio Return |
| Zain Ahmed | IBA Karachi | Karachi | 147% |
| Rahool Kumar | IBA Sukkur | Sukkur | 143% |
| Muhammad Faizan Wajid | LUMS | Lahore | 74% |
| Anoshi | IBA Sukkur | Sukkur | 69% |
| Waleed Iqbal | LUMS | Lahore | 42% |
KASB has always been a pioneer in creating financial literacy and has taken multiple initiatives to ensure everyone has access to the financial markets including students who are the future of the country.
“Once again students participating in Trading Titans have not only massively outperformed the market, but they have also beaten the best money manager in Pakistan. This shows the myth of relying on specialist advisors is not true. At KASB our goal is to educate and train 1m people on investment. We are quickly accelerating towards our target of democratizing the access to investments,” said Ali Farid Khwaja, Chairman KASB Securities.
Watch the full event video here and testimonials here.
Press contact:
Aimun Baloch
Vice President KTrade
aimun@kasb.com
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