Moscow Exchange calculated, which securities in November occupied the largest share in the portfolios of Russian private investors. There are data separately on Russian shares, shares of foreign companies and exchange-traded funds.
Besides, the exchange summed up the results on trading volumes and the opening of new accounts, and there are plenty of records.
People's portfolio, or the most popular securities
The exchange calculated, what shares of Russian and foreign companies, as well as the shares and shares of which exchange-traded funds had the largest weight in the portfolios of Russian private investors in November.
Top 10 securities were taken into account. Their shares are listed as, as if the portfolio consisted only of this ten.
Shares of Russian companies
| Gazprom | 28% |
| "Norilsk Nickel" | 15,7% |
| Sberbank - ordinary shares | 14,3% |
| NLMK | 6,7% |
| Sberbank - preferred shares | 6,6% |
| VTB | 6,3% |
| Lukoil | 6% |
| MMC | 5,6% |
| Severstal | 5,4% |
| Polymetal | 5,4% |
28%
Shares and depositary receipts of foreign companies
| Alibaba | 28% |
| Tesla | 13% |
| Apple | 11,3% |
| Baidu | 9,9% |
| Virgin Galactic | 8,3% |
| Boeing | 6,5% |
| Intel | 6,4% |
| Microsoft | 5,9% |
| Meta | 5,4% |
| Alphabet | 5,4% |
Exchange-traded funds - ETFs and BPIFs
| FXUS - stocks of large and medium-sized US companies | 16,9% |
| FXIT - shares of US IT companies | 15,8% |
| FXCN - shares of Chinese companies | 14,3% |
| TRUR - Russian stocks, bonds, gold | 14,2% |
| FXGD - gold | 9,5% |
| TUSD - US stocks, bonds, gold | 7,3% |
| TSPX - US stocks, index S&P 500 | 6,1% |
| FXRL - shares of Russian companies, Mosbirži or RTS index | 5,6% |
| VTBM — ruble money market instruments | 5,5% |
| FXRU - dollar Eurobonds of Russian companies | 4,8% |
16,9%
I will separately consider the possible reasons for the popularity of some funds..
FXUS and FXIT funds top the rankings for much of 2021, because investments in US stocks in general and in the US IT sector in particular attract many investors. These funds have performed well in the past and include well-known stocks.. The same funds are among the top 5 funds of the Moscow Exchange in terms of net asset value.
The popularity of TRUR and TUSD perpetual portfolio funds is explained, among other things, the, that they are used in the Tinkoff Investment Bank.
Most of the funds on this list were launched several years ago.. The youngest of them, TSPX, working from the beginning of December 2020. Younger funds - and in 2021, many exchange-traded mutual funds and ETF — have not yet been able to enter the top 10.
New records
November was also the month of several records on the Moscow Exchange. This applies to opening new accounts and turnovers.
New investors and accounts. In a month, 937.6 thousand new customers came to the exchange - the largest influx of all time. The number of clients as a result grew to 16.2 million, and 2.6 million of them made at least one transaction per month. This is record activity.
1.6 million accounts opened in a month, which is also a record. In total, 26.5 million brokerage accounts were registered on the exchange at the end of November. More than 4.7 million individual investment accounts have been opened.
Investments and turnover. In November, private investors invested a record 91 billion rubles in Russian shares on the Moscow Exchange, and in bonds - 100 billion. From investments in bonds 79,5% fell on corporate papers.
The volume of trading in shares of foreign companies reached 107.7 billion rubles in a month, surpassing the 100 billion mark for the first time. It's on 55% more trading volume in October. Record tied, among other things, so, that in early November the Moscow Exchange added 80 new foreign shares. Also at the end of September, foreign securities began to be traded not only for rubles, but also for dollars.
Earlier, the Moscow Exchange reported, that the total trading volume in all markets in November 2021 amounted to 91 trillion rubles. For comparison: in November 2020 it was 81.4 trillion rubles, that is, the volume of trading increased by 11%. Turnovers increased the most in the derivatives market, stock market and money market, but the volume of bond trading decreased.
