KUALA LUMPUR — Bursa Malaysia Berhad has implemented the reclassification of equities investor trading data effective today, aimed at providing clearer visibility of investor participation and fund flows across retail, institutional and domestic segments.
The reclassification enhances 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.
The reclassification introduces the following changes.
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.
The reclassification, previously announced on 24 February 2026, is timely considering the increased use of nominee structures in recent years — particularly in line with the growth in digital brokerage platforms — as well as advancements in reporting capability that allow more granular trade-level classification to be applied consistently. Bursa Malaysia will continue to engage with stakeholders to support understanding of the reclassified data and better interpretation of market activity. —Bursa Malaysia
