Southeast Bank 1^st Mutual Fund (SEBL1STMF), a closed-end mutual fund, completed its 10-year tenure on May 15, 2021. Investment Corporation of Bangladesh, the Trustee of the fund, arranged a unitholders’ meeting on an online platform on May 25, 2021 where 99.23% of the votes went in favor of converting the Fund into an open-ended mutual fund.

Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) kindly approved the conversion of SEBL1STMF into an open-ended fund named VIPB SEBL 1^st Unit Fund on June 30, 2021. BSEC also approved the Trust Deed of VIPB SEBL 1^st Unit Fund on October 04, 2021 and issued a registration certificate on October 19, 2021. Subsequently, based on the audited NAV of SEBL1STMF as on its trade suspension date on May 16, 2021 and approval from the Trustee of the fund, 1.432 units of VIPB SEBL 1^st Unit Fund have been credited to the respective investors’ Beneficiary Owner (BO) accounts for every unit of SEBL1STMF that they held. The face value of VIPB SEBL 1^st Unit Fund is Tk. 10.00

The Trustee Committee of the Fund has declared 17.50 % (Tk.1.75 per unit) cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2021. Record date: 29.08.2021. The Fund has also reported EPU of Tk. 3.14, NAV per unit of market price Tk. 15.32, NAV per unit at cost of Tk. 13.85 and NOCFPU of Tk. 2.00 for the year ended on June 2021 as against Tk. (0.76), Tk. 11.22, Tk. 12.50 and Tk. 0.55 respectively for the same of the previous year.