Of these, 14,059,198 were trading accounts held by individual investors.
Institutional investors held 20,457 trading accounts.
In September, Viet Nam’s stock market recorded 244,949 newly opened trading accounts, the highest monthly increase in three months, bringing the total number of accounts across the market to more than 14.1 million.
Most of the new accounts were opened by individual investors, while the number of accounts held by institutional investors increased by just 180.
Meanwhile, foreign investors held 51,897 trading accounts, including 47,956 accounts belonging to individual investors and 4,941 held by institutional investors. These figures represented increases of 237 and 27 accounts, respectively, over the previous month.
Since the beginning of 2026, the number of domestic investor securities accounts has increased by more than 2.2 million. Individual investors held more than 14 million accounts by the end of September, equivalent to approximately 14% of the population.
