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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2011.12.1.216

The Characteristics of Foreign Portfolio Investment  

Gong, Jai-Sik (Dept. of Finance & Insurance, Daegu University)
Kim, Choong-Hwan (Dept. of Industrial Information, Kongju Nat'l University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.12, no.1, 2011 , pp. 216-221 More about this Journal
Abstract
After the year of 2000, the Korean government has abolished the limit on foreign investments. Foreign investments in the domestic market have been thriving since. In domestic stock market, the proportion of market value held by foreign investors reaches over 40%. There are many followers in the markets, asking about what kinds of the firm that foreign investors prefer. Prior researches show that foreign investors in the American and European markets prefer stocks of the firm which are well known and are geographically closer. In this paper, we attempt to define the financial characteristics of the firms in which foreigners invest in the Korean market. The result shows that foreign investors in the domestic market tend to prefer firms with high market value of capital and dividend yield. It also shows that foreign investors in the Korean market choose firms with high book value to market value over others, while the firms with high debt ratio and the portion of the largest stock holders are shunned. This research suggests that foreign portfolio investments in the Korean market have contributed to liquidity of stock market and changed the governance structure of domestic firms in a positive way.
Keywords
Foreign Investment; Portfolio; Dividend;
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