Korea’s ETF curbs push leveraged trading overseas

South Korean investors are moving into US leveraged ETFs after tighter domestic rules pushed them away, raising questions over whether efforts to curb speculative trading are shifting risk-taking activity overseas. Trading in locally listed single-stock leveraged and inverse ETFs plunged following financial regulators' introduction of tighter measures on single-stock leveraged ETFs, according to data from the Korea Exchange. The combined trading value of the 16 single-stock leveraged and inverse