Foreign investors continue to dominate WSE

The share foreign investors on the Warsaw Stock Exchange main market remained unchanged at 53 percent in 2017, while the share of institutional investors declined by 3 percentage points to 31 percent. Individual investors were responsible for 16 percent of WSE trading, up by 3 percentage points. In H2 alone, the share of foreign investors increased by 3 percentage points to 55 percent, while the share of institutional investors edged up to 31 percent from 30 percent in H1. On the small-cap alternative market NewConnect, retail investors remained the main players, responsible for 76 percent of the turnover (up by 3 percentage points y/y. Institutional investors’ share dropped by 3 percentage points to 16 percent, while foreign investors stood at 9 percent share.