Small investors shift focus to value stocks

More individual investors in the Chinese stock market prefer a value investment strategy than engaging in speculative trading, according to a recent report released by the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

The 2017 Individual Investor Survey Report found 26.5 percent of the people surveyed adopt value investment, increasing by 5.5 percent compared with the previous year, while those endorsing short-term trading fell 5.3 percent to 18 percent of the total.

It is the first time value investment surpassed short-term trading as the dominant investment method for Chinese individual investors, though the proportion of short-term trading adopted by speculators has been declining since 2015.