Other resources
Good places to learn about finance and to check the facts for yourself.
YouTube videos
Channels that explain finance and economics: Bangladesh's regulators and well-known educational channels from abroad. No tips or signal channels.
Official channel of Bangladesh's capital-market regulator, with content on investor protection, the securities market and investor education.
BSEC's financial literacy programme channel, covering basic investment concepts, awareness messages and documentaries on avoiding fraud.
Channel of BASM, BSEC's academic arm, with videos from its financial literacy and capital-market education work.
A nonprofit's free lessons, including step-by-step explainers on finance basics such as interest, inflation, stocks and bonds.
PBS's personal-finance show, explaining budgeting, saving, debt and investing, and the psychology behind them.
Educational videos on investing and personal finance, explaining financial products and market concepts.
Evidence-based explainers on index funds, risk and return, portfolios and the research behind financial decisions.
An NYU Stern professor's full course playlists on corporate finance, valuation and accounting.
Full Open Yale Courses lectures, including Robert Shiller's Financial Markets course.
An economist's channel explaining the global economy, central banks and inflation using research.
Books
A short reading list, from first steps upwards. No purchase links.
- The Psychology of Money
Short stories on why our behaviour with money matters more than the maths.
- The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
The case for low-cost index funds, from the pioneer of the index fund.
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street
How markets work, and why beating them consistently is so hard.
- The Intelligent Investor
The value-investing classic: price versus value, and the "margin of safety".
Free courses and websites
Investor-education programmes in Bangladesh and free courses from abroad. Check rules and tax details in foreign examples against local sources.
The basics of shares, bonds, mutual funds and IPOs, investor rights, and news of free training sessions.
The academic wing of BSEC: capital-market courses, e-learning and investor-awareness programmes.
Short courses, diplomas, an Investors' Education Programme and research on the capital market.
Interest, stocks, bonds and banking in short videos. Entirely free.
The basics of budgeting, saving, borrowing and investing. Entirely free.
Free lessons on markets and personal finance, readable without signing up. Examples come from the Indian market.
Robert Shiller's online course. Enrolment is free; the certificate is paid.
A handy dictionary for looking up unfamiliar finance terms.
Articles and guides
Pieces that explain one topic clearly. Rules in foreign guides may differ in Bangladesh.
What inflation is, its main causes, and how Bangladesh's statistics bureau measures it with the consumer price index, with local examples.
A step-by-step guide to setting goals, paying off high-interest debt, building an emergency fund, gauging risk tolerance and comparing options.
How interest is earned on both savings and previously earned interest, with a worked example table.
Dividing money among stocks, bonds and cash, spreading risk within each, and periodically restoring a target mix.
How spreading money across investments can offset losses in any one, and why it cannot prevent losses in a falling market.
An introduction to low-cost, long-term index-fund investing, with starter guides on personal finance and retirement.
Official sources and data
Regulators and public bodies. If you want to check a number, a rate or a licence yourself, start here.
The central bank: monetary policy, exchange rates, interest-rate data, circulars and the lists of licensed banks and finance companies.
The capital-market regulator: laws and rules, IPO approvals, and the lists of licensed brokers and asset managers.
Prices, indices, company announcements and financial reports for listed companies.
The country's second stock exchange: market data, indices and listed-company information.
Where shares are held electronically: BO (beneficiary owner) accounts, the list of depository participants and a complaints channel.
Sanchayapatra (government savings certificates): the schemes, their profit rates and the rules for buying them.
Income tax, VAT and customs: the laws, return forms and official notifications.
Official data on inflation, GDP, population and household income and expenditure.
The insurance regulator: registered insurance companies and the rules they follow.
The regulator of microfinance institutions: check which organisations hold a licence.
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Links checked: October 2026.