Claire Witts

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Making Sense · The rise, reach and rallying power of the retail investor in Asia · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

And in Hong Kong, it's similar.

There's more ETFs being listed on overseas products.

There's more leveraged and inverse ETFs coming to market.

And there's significant expansion of the cross-border product set.

So in this case, there's a very clear direction of structural travel.

which is number one, make it easier to list products.

Number two, make them more thematic.

And number three, make them easier for retail to access.

So we're seeing stock exchanges in this region, which have traditionally been domestic or nationally focused, now effectively exporting market access.

And that's a big shift.

And how are we seeing hedge funds responding to these changes?

I think as we're seeing with AI, the trend works best when there's fundamental value and retail exuberance combined.

But we're seeing more hedge funds finding opportunity in Asia, even when there's only one of the two.

And as the exchanges expand the product set, and as we see these retail volumes continue at high levels and retail moving with trends, I think that's only going to continue.

Yes, Asia retail is definitely becoming more sophisticated in derivatives too.

This started as largely speculative, but increasingly they're being used for risk management too.

Again, if we look at Korea, single stock futures have now overtaken index futures in terms of open interest.

retail is about 12% of the derivatives market volumes.

And other Asia markets are looking to rapidly expand the range of derivative products as well.

So the retail investor in Asia today isn't just buying stocks, they're increasingly building positions across multiple instruments.

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