The government lifted restrictions on brokerages’ stock trading fees a decade ago to prompt people to shift more of their savings to investments and invigorate the capital market.
Despite the government’s original goal of increasing the number of long-term individual shareholders to help stabilize companies’ financial bases, however, few people appear to have embraced the idea of investing for the long haul.
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