Tokyo, Japan
8 August 2008

The South Korean Retail
Investment Market

Table of Contents

Return to report Abstract

Executive Summary 3
Introduction 4
Profile of the South Korean Retail Investor 5
  Retail Participation 5
  Demographic Segmentation 6
  Retail Investor Taxonomy 8
  South Korean Active Trader Profile 9
Products and Markets 11
  Allocation of South Korean Retail Investors' Financial Assets 11
  Product Preferences 12
  Preferences of Retail Investors 13
  Product Preferences of Active Traders 16
  New Products 17
Competitive Landscape--Actors and Strategies 18
  Overview of South Korean Brokerages 18
  Online Brokerages 20
Conclusions 23
 

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