Over 5.7 million individual investment accounts opened
Investors demonstrated high demand for shares in 2023 Q3. As a result, the number of new individual investment accounts (IIAs), primarily opened with brokers, rose over the quarter. The total number of IIAs was up by 11% year-on-year.
Contrastingly, the number of IIAs and the value of assets with trustees continued to decline as clients were withdrawing from large-scale standard strategies focusing on the bond market.
Overall assets in IIAs increased by 3% over the quarter, reaching ₽519 billion. The average amount of IIAs with trustees and brokers remained nearly the same, namely ₽210,000 and ₽82,000, respectively.
Russian shares in the structure of assets accounted for 35%, which is the highest level since 2015, whereas the proportion of residents’ bonds contracted to 15%.
More details are available in the publication Individual Investment Accounts: Trends in 2023 Q3.