Asia Centric: Gen Z, Women and Rural India Drive Trading Boom
India’s stock market has seen an explosion in retail participation, skyrocketing to more than 125 million registered investors from 20 million pre-pandemic. While 70% of these new investors are under...
By Clara Chen · Bloomberg
India’s stock market has seen an explosion in retail participation, skyrocketing to more than 125 million registered investors from 20 million pre-pandemic. While 70% of these new investors are under 30, the boom is broad based: female participation has surged to nearly a quarter of the market, and half of all accounts now hail from rural areas. However, this new cohort’s desire for “instant gratification” has fueled a speculative frenzy in derivatives, prompting regulator SEBI to step in with n