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Thailand has approved the sale of leveraged and inverse exchange traded funds to retail investors starting this month.
The regulatory nod to issue the complex index-tracking products is in line with Thailand’s efforts to strengthen its ETF sector and expand its capital markets.
The Thai Securities and Exchange Commission has said that asset managers can now launch leveraged and inverse ETFs with a maximum multiple of 2 times the performance of their benchmarks, according to an announcement earlier this month.
Leveraged ETFs use derivatives to deliver multiples of the performance of the indices or benchmarks they track, while inverse ETFs use derivatives to…
