Investors must shoulder more responsibility: panel

Regulators should push retail investors to take more responsibility for their investment decisions, argued panelists at an event organised by Hong Kong’s markets watchdog. But political pressure since the 2008 financial crisis has forced some jurisdictions to focus more on investor protection, at the ultimate expense of market innovation, said financial executives last week. “We are getting dangerously close to a situation where investors have a win-win situation where they ask …