Local investors help SE Asia markets cope with outflow

BANGKOK: Domestic investors are becoming bigger players in South-East Asian stock markets, thanks to active state-owned funds and rising wealth, helping the region's markets cope with the kind of foreign outflows they've had this year.

While foreign investors have been net sellers of South-East Asian shares since May when the prospect of the US Federal Reserve ending its ultra-loose monetary policy first roiled markets, domestic investors have been picking up the slack.