Retail investors held nearly all of the accounts at almost 1.4 million or 97.9% of total stock market accounts, while institutional investors owned 2.1% or 29,898 accounts.
Local investors made up 1.4 million or 98.5% of total stock market accounts compared with 21,233 accounts of foreign investors. By age group, investors 30 to 44 years old held 45.6% of stock market accounts. They are followed by investors aged 18 to 29 at 22.5%, then those in the age groups of 45 to 59 as well as 60 and above at 19.8% and 12.1%, respectively.
Retail investors earning less than P500,000 annually made up 61.2% of stock market account holders, while 21.6% of retail accounts were owned by those with an annual income of P500,000 to P1 million.Domestic investors were largely based in Metro Manila at 75.7%, followed by Luzon at 13.5% then the Visayas at 5.7%, while Mindanao comprised only 3.4%.
The top five nationalities of foreign investors were Chinese, Japanese, American, British, and Korean.
I don’t think that it was the pandemic; I think Filipinos saw what happened in the US and in the crypto bull market, and hoped that the same could be done here.