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 I think that's a positive because it's opening up more liquidity, more hedging tools, more alpha opportunity for institutional investors as well.

And what about IPOs?

Yes, retail investors in Asia have always had strong appetite for IPOs.

That continues.

We tend to see very strong participation in the growth and the tech listings at the moment.

And that can drive strong early liquidity, but it does also drive a lot of volatility in that post-IPO performance.

And that in itself has an impact on regulation.

So regulators in this region are extremely focused on retail outcomes.

In the IPO space, that might be retail allocations, lock ins, post IPO performance.

But that also translates into a strong regulatory focus on best X in the secondary market.

And we do see in Asia retail outcomes play

a bigger role in policy than perhaps we see in other parts of the world.

And that explains many of the regulatory interventions that we've seen in the market in recent years, particularly in markets like China and Korea and India.

So looking ahead, what should we be watching on the market structure front?

A few things.

First, more product innovation, especially ETFs, cross-border access and derivatives like we've talked about.

Secondly, the evolution from the stock exchanges to drive more of this retail flow.

So those topics we discussed like shorter settlement cycles, longer trading hours and

And then also work on microstructure like tick sizes and spreads to make stocks more accessible for retail.

And third, we must say overextension.

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