The Philippines has the highest proportion of female investors worldwide, with Filipinas also accounting for half of the total stock market accounts in the local bourse.
BrokerChooser, a Hungary-based broker comparison service, analyzed its internal data and reportedWednesdaythat, the highest share among the 123 countries in the list.Its 56% male and 44% female ratiois also higher than the 76%–24% global ratio favoring male investors.
Other countries cited byBrokerChooseras having high levels of female investors included the Caribbean islands Barbados (39%) and Trinidad and Tobago (38%), as well as the Pacific Island state Papua New Guinea (38%).
The 2021 findingsreflect earlier data fromeToro, a multi-asset investment platform, that showed the Philippines had the highest percentage of female traders in the said platform’s global list.
ýreportedin March 2020that over 26% ofeToro’sAsian investors were Filipinas, as compared to 18.09% of female investors in Taiwan, and 17.15% in Hong Kong.
Asian women were also better represented than their European counterparts, who made up 11.18% ofeToro’sregistered users.
Meanwhile, in the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), the percentage of female investors inched upto49.20% in 2020from. The percentage of online female investors has likewise hovered at the 50.60% mark for the same time period.
the growing number of retail investors in the local stock market, a majority of whom are neophytes.
“All the financial literacy programs we do in PSE is our contribution to help make financial inclusion a reality,” he said. “We want more Filipinos to reap the rewards of their hard work through investing.”
The Philippines is ranked17thout of 156 countries in.—Patricia B. Mirasol
