Individual investors flex their muscle amid stock market surge

Their holding rose to all-time high of 7.18% in Q1; institutional holdings decline

Individual investors have gained more sway in dictating market movement.

The holdings of retail investors — those who invest less than Rs 2 lakh — in companies listed on the NSE stood at an all-time high of 7.18 per cent (as against 6.96 per cent in the previous quarter and 6.74 per cent in the corresponding period last year), with the value of investments totalling over Rs 16 trillion in the June quarter (Q1).

The combined holding of retail and high networth individuals (HNIs) was also at an all-time high of 9.28 per cent, data from primeinfobase.com shows. Experts attribute this surge