A decline in the number of new individual securities accounts was first seen in July and continued into August, falling by 22.1 per cent year-on-year to 155,000. Domestic individual investors, meanwhile, continued to be net sellers in August for the fourth consecutive month.

More than 220,000 individual securities accounts were opened in November - the ninth month in succession that new openings passed the 100,000 mark and the first month the number exceeded 200,000. Domestic investors opened more than 1.3 million new accounts in the first eleven months of the year.