KakaoPay Securities said on Tuesday that customer custody assets exceeded 10 trillion won as of last month.
Average daily custody assets stood at around 4 trillion won in January 2025, but rose above 10 trillion won within a year. That marked a 155 percent increase from the same month a year earlier. The share of net buying, which corresponds to new money inflows among the increase in stock valuation last year, reached 85 percent.
As of January this year, custody assets were distributed in the order of domestic stocks, overseas stocks, deposits, and funds. Pension savings accounts grew more than eightfold from a year earlier. The individual savings account (ISA) launched in November last year is also seeing rapid fund inflows.
CEO Hocheol Shin (신호철) said, "10 trillion won in custody assets is the result of the spread of a long-term investment culture and the accumulation of investor trust." He added, "We will expand so that more investors can grow their assets."
Sangyeop Oh
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