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2 stories tagged “derivatives”, each from official Korean data with its source and timestamp.
Korea lists futures on 1,799 stocks. On one day, 333 of them traded.
One name took a third of the day's stock-futures volume. Five names took half of it; five out of six listed stock futures did not trade at all.
For fifteen straight years, the most common new Korean fund was a derivative. In 2024 that stopped.
Read by establishment year, Korea's fund register has changed hands three times: mixed-bond funds through 2008, derivative funds 2009 to 2023, funds-of-funds since. Derivative codes fell from 1,633 to 238 in one year.