‘Big investors’ fall for second quarterBy Kao Shih-ching / Staff reporterThe number of so-called “big investors” — those trading NT$500 million (US$17.13 million) or more in a single quarter — fell for a second consecutive quarter to 2,799 last quarter, the lowest number in the past five quarters, Taiwan Stock Exchange data showed. Only 2,401 big investors were recorded in the fourth quarter of 2020. The decline in big investors correlated with a 2.8 percent decline on the TAIEX. Photo: CNAThe number of “mid-sized investors” — those trading NT$100 million to NT$500 million in shares in a single quarter — plummeted 28 percent from a quarter earlier to 21,926 last quarter, also the lowest in the past five quarters, it showed. Local individual investors accounted for 61.5 percent of the total turnover last quarter, down from 65 percent a quarter earlier, while foreign institutional investors made up 28.5 percent, up from 26 percent, the data showed.

Source: Taipei Times April 19, 2022 02:33 UTC