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Korea’s leveraged ETF appetite spills into US markets

koreaherald.com · 11dShare

South Korean retail investors may have cooled on single-stock leveraged ETFs at home after regulators tightened trading rules, but their appetite for leveraged bets has not disappeared. Instead, much of that demand has flowed into US-listed products. Koreans now own unusually large portions of several leveraged ETFs, giving them an outsized presence in corners of the US market — and potentially contributing to trading volumes that recently disrupted daytime access to popular products. The cleare

First report: Korean investors face ‘blind’ trading in popular US leveraged ETFs — koreaherald.com, 13d