KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia Bhd
has implemented the reclassification of equities investor trading data effective today, with nominee trades now categorised as either retail or institutional at the trade level.
The exchange said the nominee trades will be based on information of the end-beneficiary owner provided by participating organisations.
"This is aimed at providing clearer visibility of investor participation and fund flows across retail, institutional and domestic segments,” Bursa Malaysia said in a statement today.
The reclassification will also enhance the granularity of investor participation and fund flow statistics by refining how trade-level activity is classified and attributed across investor segments.
This marks the first update of investor segmentation since the statistics were introduced in 2008.
Previously, all nominee trades were classified as institutional investors.
The reclassification will also give a better reflection of domestic investment activity. Foreign-owned institutions incorporated in Malaysia are classified based on the source of investment funds at the trade level, guided by the place of incorporation.
This aligns better with shareholding data, which is recorded at the settlement date.
Previously, all trades by foreign-owned institutions, regardless of place of incorporation, were classified as foreign.
The exercise only applies to the reporting of trade-level investor participation data and does not alter data on total daily trading value. There is also no impact on shareholding data. - Bernama
