Zeeshan Dar – Chief Executive Officer

The Chief Executive Officer of DSL is, Mr. Zeshan Dar, currently is heading the Board. He has more than 8 years of finance and marketing experience with his own family business “Dollar East”.  Mr. Dar completed his MBA with major in finance from Australian University.
Mr. Dar has been actively involves in Karachi Stock Exchange since 1996. He is also responsible for the management of the group portfolio.

  

M. Ghayas Uddin – Chief Operating Officer

The Chief Operating Officer of DSL is Muhammad Ghayas Uddin, has had 12 years of Stock broking business experience with Citibank and various brokerage. He has been associated with the Equity Operation of UBS Securities since the inception of the company i.e. 1994 and has been instrumental in setting up the systems and controls of the company. He was part of the sale team at the Investment Product Group (Shares Multiplier Department) of Citibank Karachi. He was involved in product sales and managing the unit’s client base and settlements desk for foreign equity investments in both primary and secondary market transactions and was instrumental in re-engineering control and management system. His experience includes exposure to all the local, foreign and operational aspect and is fully conversant with all financial matters related to equity trading operation. He holds a Master degree in commerce from the University of Karachi.

  

PRODUCT OFFERING

The growth and structural change in Pakistan’s financial and capital markets have created significant opportunity for properly focused “financial house”. Darson Securities objective is to become a highly specialized equity corporate finance house, and public sector of Pakistan.
Darson has primarily focused on equities sales and trading and has been successfully offering brokerage facilities to hundreds of satisfied retail clients and some of the institutions namely.

Saqib Islam (CFO-Karachi)

Done Graduation in Commerce from Punjab University in Lahore. Have Excellent experience of Stock Market and financial management.  

 

Zulfiqar Ali Anjum (COO-Lahore)

Done Graduation and working as market Analyst for last 15 years.

  


1                        ABAMCOO CAPITAL FUND
2                        ABAMCOO COMPOSITE FUND
3                        ABAMCOO GROWTH FUND
4                        ABAMCOOSTOCK MARKET FUND
5                        ATLAS FUND OF THE FUNDS
6                        ATLAS INCOME FUND
7                        ATLAS STOCK MARKER FUND
8                        BSJS BALANCE FUND LTD.
9                        FIRST CAPITAL MUTUAL FUND
10                      JAHANGIR SIDDIQUI INVESTMENT BANK
11                      KASB BANK LTD
12                      NDLC –IFIC
13                      NOMAN ABID & CO
14                      PAKISTAN CAPITAL MARKET FUND
15                      PAKISTAN INCOME FUND
16                      PAKISTAN PREMIER FUND
17                      PAKISTAN STOCK MARKET FUND
18                      PAKISTAN STRATEGIC ALLOCATION FUND
19                      UNIT TRUST OF PAKISTAN
20                      UTP – INCOME FUND
21                      UTP – ISLAMIC FUND

 

The company is committed to provide excellent and personalized professional service to all its clients. We believe that quality research is vital for the success of any brokerage house and we aim to provide objective and unbiased market research to our valued client.
Its product range has been structured such that a sustained growth in revenues can be maintained.
Product offering will include the following:

§         Equity Brokerage
§         Equity Research
§         Portfolio management
§         Investment Advisory
§         Debt Advisory
§         Asset Management
§         Corporate Finance 

 

Darson has eight branches operating in Pakistan. Company’s head office and one regional office is located in Lahore and regional office are in Gujranwala and Multan (Punjab). Obtaining a seat on the KSE was an important milestone for the company, as the KSE is Pakistan’ s largest stock exchange in addition most of the capital market operations and large financial institution concentrated in the city. Therefore, the recently established Karachi office has been given a status of company’s corporate office to cater the needs of institutional clients and strengthen the company’s market operations. Others four one in the Lahore and remaining three in Karachi.

FUTURE PLANS
 ON LINE TRADING

Being a major retail brokerage house at Karachi stock exchange, Darson would like to venture into the online trading to provide instant execution and quality research to the ever-expanding retail clientele, We are in touch with KSE management on this issue and will soon launch our on line stock trading portal.

RESEARCH

In today’s fast paced environment timely information is the key to success. At Darson, we are in process of setting up full fledge research with major focus on technical and fundamental research, Recently, We hired Senior analyst to set up a research department and also to look after our new intuitional sales desk

INSTITUTIONAL SALES DESK

The institutional clients largely fuel the KSE-100 index’s rise from 1100 to 5600 plus levels. The entry of pension funds, asset management companies, bank and active buying.
From mutual funds helped KSE-100 to cross all time high at 5600 and scale new peaks above 6000 levels. To serve the diverse needs of various institutional clients, we are in process of setting an institutional sales desk with major focus on stock trading and debt instruments.

ON LINE FOREX TRADING

Our sponsor, Dollar East, one of the largest exchange companies of the Pakistan, contemplating to setup an on line foreign exchange website to help the importers, exporters, and general public to buy sell remit or send money overseas online. We are in touch with State Bank of Pakistan on this issue and once granted permission will launch a secure website.

COMMODITY TRADING

Darson is also member of commodity exchange of Pakistan, once the exchange starts is operating, Darson will be able to commence operating as we have sufficient experience in Gold trading an forex (Dollar East).

Dollar East is Pakistan’s leading money exchange company with 12 authorized branches throughout the country. The company was the first in Pakistan to get a license to start business in 1992. Dollar East has also now become the first company to get an NOC from the State Bank of the Pakistan to establish an exchange company. The exchange company has a paid up capital of R s. 100 million and will soon launch its operations after fulfilling the necessary formalities. After the establishment of formal exchange company, Dollar East will deal in foreign currency notes, coins, postal notes, money orders, bank draft. Traveler’s cheques and transfers in a regulated environment. Moreover, the State Bank would extend current account and SGLA facilities to Dollar East and would allow it to buy and sell foreign exchange with other exchange companies and bank in the interbank market. In addition, the company will be allowed to open currency exchange booths all over the country at public places such as airports, hotels, etc.

Gujranwala Institute of future Technologies.

GIFT is the group largest undertaking in the provision of quality education in Pakistan. It is registered as a private limited company with a paid up capital of R s. 100 Million. The state of the art campus at Gujranwala has started its operation offering coursed in modern disciplines such as computer Engineering, E- Commerce and Business Administration. Etc. Punjab Education has also granted UNIVERSITY status.

Importers of Poultry Biologics and Pharmaceutical.

Bio- Vet is the single largest distributor of poultry vaccines and other related medicines in Pakistan as well as fast countries in the middles East, Established in 1984, the company has successfully expanded its operations having 12 offices throughout Pakistan.

Chain Designer is Pakistan’s largest manufacturer of quality gold chain. The company has captured a big share of the domestic Jewelry market and its products are exported as well. The company was established in 1999, will a paid-up capital of R s. 20 million.