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4 stories tagged “funds”, each from official Korean data with its source and timestamp.
Korea registered 138 new fund codes in a day — half were equity funds, two were retirement target-date funds
A single day's fund-code registrations show what asset managers are launching right now: 69 equity funds, 23 bond funds, 21 fund-of-funds, and only two target-date retirement funds.
For fifteen straight years, the most common new Korean fund was a derivative. In 2024 that stopped.
Read by establishment year, Korea's fund register has changed hands three times: mixed-bond funds through 2008, derivative funds 2009 to 2023, funds-of-funds since. Derivative codes fell from 1,633 to 238 in one year.
183,351 funds isn't 183,351 choices
Korea's registry holds 183,351 funds — sounds like endless choice. But most launches are derivatives and bonds, equity funds are one in ten, and new launches have halved since 2020. A big count is not a wide menu.
Korea has 183,351 registered funds, and the factory that makes them is slowing down.
New fund registrations peaked in 2020 near 6,000 a year and have roughly halved since. What Korea launches is mostly derivatives and bonds — equity funds are one in ten. Among funds that name a country, America outnumbers China two to one.