Transactions by individual Polish investors accounted for 28% of the shares traded on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in the first half of the year, according to a press release by the WSE. The percentage of transactions by Polish investors rose 11% y/y in the first half. At the same time, the weight of foreign investor transactions amounted to 35% of the total volume of shares traded, with trades by Polish institutional investors accounting for 37%.
Individual investors accounted for more than half of the volume of derivatives traded in the first semester, whereas Polish institutional investors accounted for 35%, and foreign investors for 11%.
Individual investors also dominate the options market (64%), whereas institutional investors account for 30%, leaving foreigners with only 6% of the total volume of options traded on the Polish Stock Exchange.
The value of assets managed by Polish pension funds increased to approximately 37.3 billion Euros.