Over 4,300 ELS linked to the Nikkei 225 index have been issued in South Korea between March 2023 and March 2024, nearly double the volume issued in the prior year.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 has gone over the threshold of 40,000 since Monday (4 March) as investors embrace the index’s new all-time high. Korean investors began to prefer the Nikkei225 away from the risk of falling HSCEI level and ELS losing - Gyun Jun, Samsung Securities The Japanese benchmark index has surged almost 42% over the past year, and the Korean structured product market has seized on this trend. Data from the Korea Securities Depository (KSD) shows that over 4,300 Nikkei 2