We will highlight top top-performing assets of Pakistan In 2023, Pakistan Equities outperformed major asset classes, having lagged in recent years.
With four trading days remaining in 2023, the benchmark KSE 100 Index yielded a gain of 53% from January 1, 2023, to December 22, 2023. According to a Topline Securities report, this increase includes dividends collected.
The US dollar has become a popular investment option for local Pakistanis in recent times. It yielded a 25 percent return in 2023, rising from Rs. 226 to Rs. 283 in the interbank market and 21 percent in the open market, rising from Rs. 236 to Rs. 285.
The gain would have climbed to 25% at the open market and 29% at the interbank dollar if this amount had been deposited in a 1-year term deposit at the start of the year (assuming a return of 4 percent on USD deposits).
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In a similar vein, the declining value of the PKR allowed the holder of the Naya Pakistan US$ Certificate under the Roshan Digital Account (RDA) to earn 33 percent in PKR terms.
Gold, which gave local investors an above-average return in the previous few years, saw respectable growth. It increased from Rs. 157,836/10 grams to Rs. 186,900/10 grams in 2023, yielding an 18% profit. Additionally, it went up from US$ 1,826/ounce on December 30, 2022, to US$ 2,065/ounce on December 22, 2023, on the global market.
Government T-Bills have also been a much-discussed investment option. The government must set record-high interest rates in the face of tightening monetary policy.
Consequently, T-Bill investors realized a 23 percent gain in 2023. The analysis made the assumption that money put in actively traded 3-month T-Bills would be reinvested every three months.
Due to high rates, a lot of investors shifted to low-risk, fixed-income investments in 2023.
In the fixed-income market, the National Savings 3-year Special Saving Certificate (SSC) yielded a 13 percent return in 2023, while the average bank savings rate stayed at 17 percent. Money market products offered by neighborhood AMCs returned 20% on average in 2023.
According to Zeeman.com, Karachi real estate (houses, residential plots, and commercial plots) increased 6-29 percent in 2023 even though many investors stayed out of the property market.
