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Sharoon Ahmad
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Pakistan Economy - Debt Servicing the Next Big Challenge

  • Amidst rising interest rate outlook, we project domestic debt servicing to jump 25.0%/17.5%YoY in FY19/FY20 to PKR1.65tn/PKR1.94tn – overshooting FY19/20 budgets by 19%/31% (PKR262bn/PKR456bn).
  • We estimate that every 1% increase in interest rates raises annual domestic debt servicing by ~PKR133bn (or 6.8%).
  • Over the short term we believe that there is not much that can be done in curtailing expenditures, so the focus would likely remain on revenue measures resulting in new/increased indirect taxes – such as the ones we have seen in the past i.e. incremental GST, IDP Tax, Flood Surcharge, GIDC, Supertax, Tariff Rationalization Surcharge, Financing Cost Surcharge, Neelum-Jhelum Surcharge.
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Elixir Securities
Elixir Securities

Elixir Securities Pakistan is a Corporate Member of the Pakistan Stock Exchange & Pakistan Mercantile Exchange and is one of the leading securities brokerage & investment banking firms in Pakistan, established since 1994. Our principal business activities include all aspects of Pakistan’s Capital Markets covering Securities Brokerage (Equities, Fixed Income and Commodities), Corporate Finance & Capital Markets Advisory (M&A, ECM, DCM) and Investment Research (Economics & Securities). We are one of the most active & aggressive Broker-Dealers in Pakistan executing trades for most of the Top 20 Global Brokers with unmatched corporate access credentials and have successfully advised and closed on some landmark ECM transactions in the history of Pakistan including the largest deal in frontier Asia (USD 1.02 billion). Our Clients include foreign and domestic financial institutions (Banks, Asset Managers, Insurance Companies, Pension Funds) corporates, HNWI’s and retail investors. This is supported by a very strong and independent research capability, which is quoted regularly in both local and international media.

Elixir Securities Pakistan is the proud recipient of many awards & recognitions including AsiaMoney’s Brokers Poll 2017, FinanceAsia’s Pakistan Best Investment Bank and Best Broker 2017, The Asset’s Best Brokerage House in Pakistan 2016, Asiamoney’s “Best Domestic Equity House 2015 in Pakistan”, The Asset Triple A Country Awards 2015 - Pakistan “Deal of the Year” and “Deal of the Year-Highly Commended”, CFA Society of Pakistan Awards for Year 2015 “Best Research Analyst (1st Rank), CFA Society of Pakistan Awards for Year 2014 “Best Research Analyst (1st Rank)”, “Best Trader” 2nd Runner-up (3rd Rank), The Asset Triple A Country Awards 2014’s “Best Deal in Pakistan” and Capital Finance International’s nomination for “Best Equity Research in Pakistan 2010”.

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