South Korean retail investors in leveraged ETF suffered a total loss of $4.8 billion
2026-10-21 12:02:15
According to CoinMeta, as reported by Cailian News on October 21st, retail investors in South Korea lost a total of 6.31 trillion Korean won (equivalent to 4.8 billion US dollars) on leveraged exchange-traded products for individual stocks. Data submitted by the Financial Services Commission of South Korea to an opposition party member shows that from May 27th to August 14th, retail investors from ten South Korean brokerage firms incurred this loss on the stock ETF. The Financial Services Commission's statistics include both realized profits and losses as well as unrealized floating losses. Of this, 2.32 trillion Korean won were realized losses, while 3.99 trillion Korean won were unrealized floating losses. Investors in the 40-year-old age group suffered the highest losses, with 165,200 accounts totaling 2.05 trillion Korean won in floating losses; 158,000 50-year-old investors' accounts lost a total of 1.87 trillion Korean won, and 117,300 30-year-old investors' accounts lost a total of 1.09 trillion Korean won. In terms of average loss per account, older investors incurred higher losses, with investors aged 70 and above averaging about 29.94 million Korean won in losses per account.
Source:CLS
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