Korea's issuance of equity-linked securities
has soared to a record high.
According to the Korea Securities Depository,
a total of one-hundred-30 trillion won...
or 88-point-five-nine billion U.S. dollars...
worth of equity-linked securities were sold
as of the end of last month.
Of the products sold, equity-linked securities
made up about 70 percent and other derivatives-linked
securities, based on products like oil and
gold accounted for the rest.
The volume has grown by over four billion
dollars since the end of last year.
Financial authorities are preparing purchase
policies to protect investors from mistakenly
buying ultra-high-risk products.
