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Our goal is to empower you with the knowledge to make informed decisions and ensure a fair and transparent investment experience.

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The ECMA aims to ensure the existence of a capital market environment in which securities can be issued and traded in an orderly, fair, efficient and transparent manner.

In Ethiopia, investors are broadly categorized into:

Retail Investors

Any person who sells, buys, or holds securities expecting financial return from such transactions.

Institutional Investors

Institutions/companies investing in capital market products such as;

    • Banks, insurance companies, microfinance and other financial institutions.
    • Federal and regional governments.
    • Collective Investment Schemes,
    • State owned enterprises,
    • Pension and retirement funds

Foreign Investors

Includes non-Ethiopian investors participating in Ethiopia’s capital market and includes;

    • A foreign national investor
    • An enterprise in which a foreign national has an ownership stake
    •  An enterprise incorporated outside of Ethiopia by any investor
    • An enterprise established jointly by two or three of the investors specified above
    • An Ethiopian permanently residing abroad and preferring treatment as a foreign investor; but, doesn’t include foreign nationals of Ethiopian origin who prefer to be treated as Ethiopian nationals;
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Collective Investment Scheme Draft Directive

It is to be recalled that the public consultation on the Draft Directive on Collective Investment Schemes (CIS) will be held on September 16, 2025, at Addis Ababa University, Commerce Campus Hall, from 08:30 AM to 03:30 PM. Those interested in attending are kindly requested to register below.

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