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Individual investors are estimated to have lost W100 trillion on Korea¡¯s stock market this year until September. Korea Exchange said on Tuesday that the market capitalization of stocks held by individual investors who directly invested in the domestic stock market has decreased by over W62.7 trillion, while the valuation loss of equity funds amounts to more than W41.5 trillion. The overall loss totals approximately W104.2 trillion. Individual investors account for 25.3 percent of the domestic stock market, meaning the estimated individual loss is around W 62.7 trillion this year until September.
According to fund evaluation group Zeroin, the domestic equity fund lost W17.7 trillion while the overseas equity fund lost W23.7 trillion by the end of September.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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