Every third investor has ETFs in his portfolio

The interest of Polish investors in ETFs has grown dynamically over the last year, according to the National Investor Survey 2021, carried out periodically by the Association of Individual Investors. Units of this type of funds have 33.7 percent of investors in their portfolios, by almost 14 percent more than in the previous edition of the survey. The popularity of ETFs is growing around the world, incl. thanks to lower management costs. The growing interest of Polish investors is also influenced by the increasing offer of ETFs on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

"In Poland, the most popular way of investing are still safe instruments, such as mutual funds, debt or mixed funds. However, among the products that we create, i.e. ETFs, the most popular are foreign equity funds. The S&P 500 Lyxor or our fund based on mWIG40, which also in the last dozen or so months brought more than 50 percent of return. So it seems that the belief in the stock market is there, but it still applies to a small group of investors," Robert Sochacki, member of the management board of Beta Securities Poland, said.

As he noted, the group of active investors in Poland is relatively small. The PIT-8C settlement for 2020 made about 400,000 people, which roughly reflects the number of people who invest in the stock market. The entire capital market, however, hopes that the environment of admittedly raised, but still low-interest rates will increase interest in the stock exchange and investing in equity instruments.

(Newseria)