Zimbabwe Stock Exchange

Functions

• Controls and regulates admission of new members.
• Acts as a barometer of the well-being of the Zimbabwean economy.
• A market for buying and selling shares, stocks, bonds as well as other second hand securities.
• Establishes prices for shares using the market forces of supply and demand.
• Quotes and publishes share prices.
• Educates members of the public, through its outreach programmes, on investment on shares.
• Gives incentives to investors because investment in shares is easily marketable.
• Sets out a code of conduct for dealers to protect investors against unfair business dealings.
• Compensates investors who may be defrauded by dealers.
• Lists and lists companies after examining and assessing their performance.
• Prepares reports and information on the companies dealing on the Stock Exchange.
• Allows companies and government to raise funds.
• Provides investors with names of reputable companies.
• Approves shares of companies to be bought and sold.

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