Korea’s Retail-Trading Army Is Going All-In on US Leveraged ETFs
- Individual Korea investors own over 20% of some US-listed ETFs
- ‘Straight vanilla is boring,’ they want leverage: BI’s Sin
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Leveraged exchange-traded funds are so popular among South Korean retail investors that they own more than 20% of some of the most high-profile ones listed in the US.
Among their favorites, they hold no less than 35% of an ETF that offers a 1.5 times magnified bet on Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc., and 28% of another that provides a three-times wager on FAANG and other tech shares, based on data compiled by Bloomberg.