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Money leaving leverage is flooding in. Earn KRW 1 million a month with just KRW 100 million? The truth about covered call ETFs

Retail investors who got burned on leveraged ETFs are flocking somewhere new: covered call ETFs that promise monthly payouts. The Korean market has already grown to KRW 26 trillion...

An obsession with portfolios & rebalancing (feat. pension funds and foreigners)

Warren Buffett's investing principles are simple: “Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.” Of course, Buffett has also had paper losses along the way...

What is DeFi?

The bank is where we naturally go to borrow money or earn interest. Banks manage our assets with sturdy vaults and complex screening processes...

Foreigners dumping Samsung and SK hynix? “Actually, they’re on a ‘weight diet’”… the fundamentals are intact

Retail investors are growing anxious over heavy selling by foreigners and institutions centered on Samsung Electronics and SK hynix. But this selling is not due to worsening earnings...

Why is buyback cancellation suddenly all over the news? From SK hynix to Apple, what shareholder returns really mean

SK hynix recently announced it will cancel all of its treasury shares, worth a whopping KRW 12 trillion, and the stock market is heating up. A share cancellation is when a company, from the market...

The secret of corporate “splits”: spin-offs, split-offs and stock splits, and the shock of Hanwha’s big announcement

A decision by a company to shrink or split itself is a major event that directly affects the value of investors' assets. With news of a large-scale business reorganization at Hanwha Group...

Stock splits vs. bonus issues: they look the same, so why does the market react differently

To understand this article, you first need to know two kinds of money recorded on a company's books. Paid-in capital is the base money shareholders pooled when the company was first founded...

Why do companies go public, and where does the money go: the most realistic explanation of the stock market

When a company goes public, it suddenly has money. This sentence is half right and half wrong. That is exactly where most retail investors get confused. When a company lists...

Great dividends, stagnant price: the structural reasons preferred shares fail to rise

Anyone who has traded stocks even a little has had this experience. Two shares of the same company: one pays more dividends and is cheaper, yet oddly only the other one...

Why dividend stocks are suddenly hot: the separate taxation of dividend income that moved even companies that never paid dividends

Dividend stocks are drawing attention again in the Korean stock market. More companies, even ones that paid almost no dividends in the past, are considering or actually raising dividends....

Why treasury share cancellations and dividend tax relief are being discussed together: the Korean stock market's focus has shifted

Look at the Korean stock market these days and unfamiliar terms pop up all at once: share buyback cancellations, Commercial Act amendments, separate taxation of dividend income. Each looks complicated on its own, but these...