The number of new stock trading accounts in Vietnam hits a record high in November, 2021. (Photo: Vietnam Securities Depository Center)

As of November 30, Vietnam had 4 million stock trading accounts, up 1.3 million accounts for the previous year.

The number of new securities trading accounts opened by individual domestic investors in November was 220,600. Invidual foreign investors opened 473 accounts, the most since May. Foreign institutional investors opened 24 new accounts.

Domestic individual investors opened more than 1 million accounts in the first 10 months of 2021, 99.5% of new accounts. This has driven the market’s high liquidity and the VN-Index’s string of records this year.