In January-March 2023, net inflows from individuals to brokerage accounts amounted to 285 billion rubles, which is the maximum since the end of 2021. This should From the “Overview of the main indicators of professional participants in the securities market” of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
The asset volume of individual investors, which investors placed in intermediary institutions, reached 7 trillion rubles. Basically, the Russians bought stocks and bonds. The share of resident companies in the asset structure of the Russians reached 30% and the share of bonds reached almost (32%). The share of foreign assets decreased by 2 points to 28%. The document states that this is due to the issuance of substitute bonds and the sale of foreign shares on existing sites.
The number of clients served by brokers reached 24.5 million people. The average account size increased from 1.3 million to 1.4 million rubles, excluding empty accounts.
At the same time, the share of empty accounts is quite high. Only one out of every eight accounts has assets in excess of 10,000 rubles. Most of the assets fall into the accounts of qualified investors, which do not exceed 2% of the total number of customers.
According to the Moscow Stock Exchange, individual investors began to dominate the trading structure on the Moscow Stock Exchange last year. Their share increased from 41% to 81.5% and the number reached 25 million people as of April 2022. This trend is associated, on the one hand, with the departure of foreign investors, and on the other hand, the decline in deposit yields.