TWO decades after the devastating Asian financial crisis and the dot-Com bubble burst, retail or individual investors have once again returned in a big way to Bursa Malaysia, to the point that they have become a stronger buying force than foreign investors and local institutional funds.
Retail investors are not just ruling the local stock market in terms of trading volume, but also in terms of the money they pour into the market.
To put it into perspective, the value of shares traded by retail investors was RM32.3bil in June, which compares significantly to the foreigners’ RM14.6bil and local institutional funds’ RM30.28bil.
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