The influx of private investors on the Russian stock market is not so impressive as it seems. More than half it consists of “dead souls” – accounts with which there was no investment. About this in an interview published on the site of the Central Bank, said the deputy chairman of the regulator Sergey Shvetsov.
At the end of the first quarter of the current year, the number of brokerage accounts in Russia reached 12.7 million, but 60 percent of them are empty. Another 19 percent are insignificant from the point of view of investment remnants – about 10 thousand rubles. According to Shvetsov, most likely, citizens opened them only to try to stretch on the stock exchange.
Massively open brokerage bills of the individuality since last year. But an active regulator recognizes only 21 percent, that is, about 2.7 million. However, the representative of the Central Bank noted that such a result looks quite well.
In the Central Bank, it is believed that empty brokerage accounts appeared as a result of the interaction of banks with their clients on other operations. That is, citizens have received opportunities to invest, but did not understand why it is necessary.
Shvetsov expressed the hope that in the next six months, money will appear at least half of the empty accounts. However, he added, the process depends on the level of welfare of the population, whether citizens have free money to buy securities. Currently, the influx of money from private investors is about 200 billion rubles per month. As the reason for the arrival of people to the market of the Shvetsov called the growth of its availability and active proposals of banks.
In the same interview, the deputy chairman of the Central Bank called Bitcoin an example of financial pyramids in which depositors cannot receive any guarantee. According to him, if the assets are not under the protection of the Russian Federation, they can simply pick up.