Samsung Asset Management announced on the 23rd that the “KODEX Securities” ETF has been ranked first..

Samsung Asset Management announced on the 23rd that the “KODEX Securities” ETF has been ranked first among all ETFs except leveraged, with a return of 292.8% in the past year.

Since the beginning of the year, it has recorded a 99.4% return, overwhelming existing leading industries such as semiconductors.

The KODEX Securities ETF is recording excellent returns because the domestic stock market continues to rise. As a result, securities firms’ brokerage (consignment trading) commission income is expected to hit a new record high as investors’ stock trading surged.

In addition, securities companies’ active efforts to return shareholders in line with the government’s value-up policy are also stimulating investment sentiment. Analysts say that the undervalued attractiveness was highlighted as major securities companies announced a series of treasury stock purchases, retirement, and expansion of dividends, which became a strong catalyst for the index’s rise.

Since its listing in 2008, the KODEX Securities ETF has become a representative product of the domestic securities industry. It evenly incorporates major securities stocks that lead the domestic stock market, including Mirae Asset Securities, Korea Financial Group, Kiwoom Securities, and Samsung Securities.

As the securities industry as a whole has been booming recently, more investors are trying to invest in the growth of the industry as a whole instead of choosing individual volatile stocks. In fact, since the beginning of the year, the cumulative net purchase of KODEX Securities has reached 135.8 billion won. In particular, net personal purchases of 65.2 billion won flowed in on the 19th alone, ranking second in individual purchases among all ETFs.

Thanks to record returns and inflows of funds, KODEX Securities’ net assets reached 946.8 billion won, on the verge of exceeding 1 trillion won. This is an unusual scale for a securities sector ETF. Samsung Asset Management stressed that securities stocks are becoming an essential asset in the portfolio among local investors.

Lee Dae-hwan, manager of Samsung Asset Management, said, “Recently, the yield of the securities industry is overwhelming other industries due to the all-time performance expectations of the securities industry and the shareholder return policy,” adding, “In the current situation where the overall benefits of the securities industry are expected, more and more investors are making efficient investments through KODEX securities ETFs instead of individual stock investments.”