How to find a Stock Broker? To be continued

How to sell Shares from your portfolio on the Secondary Market?

* If you want to divest 500 shares of "XYZ" Company, you need to:

1. Inform your broker about your divestment - name of company of shares to be sold, price and amount

2. The broker will try to match your order

3. If your order is not matched, he will inform you and negotiate a suitable price, when the order is matched, the order is processed.

* If the broker sells your shares, you will:

4. Receive a sold note of the transaction.

Note:

- This document is important.

- This document confirms the transactions that have taken place with your approval.

Bought/Sold notes shall be dispatched by the Broker to the clients, before commencement of the next trading session.

Bought/Sold notes inform you of all the transactions that has taken place in your account on a said date.

How does an Investor Act in case of a wrong-doing?

If you have a complaint, first inform the Compliance Officer of your broker firm. The Compliance Officer should be able to help you and resolve the complaint. If you are not satisfied you can forward your complaint to the CSE for investigation. As a final step you can forward your complaint to the SEC who has statutory authority to investigate complaints.

Ensure you have given the CDS your correct correspondence address and please be mindful that you receive all Bought/Sold Notes and the CDS statement. If you have not received the said documents within five working days, please inform your broker and make a note of your complaint.

We give below, a full list of companies licensed to function as Stockbrokers at the Colombo Stock Market. Please ensure that you trade only through one or more firms mentioned on this list.

Members - Debt and Equity

* Bartleet Mallory Stockbrokers (Pvt) Ltd.

Tel. 5220200; E-mail [email protected]; Website: www.bartleetstock.com

* Acuity Stockbrokers (Pvt) Ltd.

Tel. 2206206; E-mail: [email protected]