OREANDA-NEWS In Russia, the number of private investors increased in the first quarter of 2023. This is what "Izvestia" writes about.

According to Mosbirzhi, in May, the number of individuals with brokerage accounts reached 25.56 million people — the number of accounts exceeded 43 million. In April, the stock market was replenished by almost 500 thousand participants.

It is noted that investors invested 107 billion rubles in Russian bonds and brought 17.9 billion rubles to the stock market. At the same time, the number of individual investment accounts increased by 61 thousand, to 5.43 million.

Earlier, the head of the State Duma Committee on the financial Market, Anatoly Aksakov, said that due to the reduction in state revenues in Russia, it is necessary to develop the opportunities of private investors.