Shafaqna English– South Korea’s finance minister announced on Tuesday(4 Aug 2026) that the government is preparing to implement new measures designed to reduce excessive fluctuations in the country’s stock markets, a decision that comes as recent data has begun to indicate a noticeable deceleration in retail investor participation in single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds – a category of high-risk, high-reward products that had previously attracted significant speculative interest from individual traders.
Among the new restrictions introduced by South Korean authorities last week is a proposed ceiling that would confine an individual investor’s holdings in these leveraged ETFs to no more than 20% of their total investment portfolio – a measure that was activated after the initial set of curbs implemented two weeks prior proved insufficient to temper the explosive retail demand for these high-risk financial instruments.