Topic: securities accounts

Individual investors accounting for 99.8% of the total accounts .

The figure exceeding the target set for 2025.

The number of new accounts registered by individual investors marking record high over the past two years.

The figure signaling strong recovery from April.

A decline in the number of new individual securities accounts was first seen in July and continued into August, falling by 22.1 per cent year-on-year to 155,000. Domestic individual investors, meanwhile, continued to be net sellers in August for the fourth consecutive month.