{"id":365,"date":"2026-11-12T13:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T13:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/sri-lankas-new-budget-motivates-students-investment-in-risky-assets\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T13:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T13:10:39","slug":"sri-lankas-new-budget-motivates-students-investment-in-risky-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/sri-lankas-new-budget-motivates-students-investment-in-risky-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s new budget motivates\u00a0students\u2019 investment in risky assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ECONOMYNEXT \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s 2027 budget has proposed to provide a share portfolio subject to a maximum of Rs. 10,000 to boost investment into risky assets of share market, the official 2027 budget document showed.<\/p>\n<p>The number of persons actively trading in connection with the Colombo Stock Exchange is only around 0.7 percent of the population over 18 years of age, the document said.<\/p>\n<p>The government has proposed to implement a new programme named \u201cA Share for Everyone\u201d under the vision \u201cLet\u2019s Know, Let\u2019s Learn, Let\u2019s Invest\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the aim of actively connecting students in schools who are studying for the Advanced Level in Grade 13 and are over 18 years of age with the stock market, it is proposed to introduce the project to provide a share portfolio subject to a maximum of Rs. 10,000\/-, in accordance with a formal selection procedure,\u201d the government said.<\/p>\n<p>President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in his capacity as the finance minister also proposed to introduce a mechanism to encourage small and medium-scale enterprises to get listed in the Colombo Stock Exchange. (Colombo\/November 12\/2026)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECONOMYNEXT \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s 2027 budget has proposed to provide a share portfolio subject to a maximum of Rs. 10,000 to boost investment into risky assets of share market, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}