Almost every fifth Russian (19% of respondents) has a brokerage account, RBC writes with reference to a survey by the analytical center NAFI. But only a little more than half of those who have brokerage accounts – 10% of respondents (13% of male and 8% of female respondents) – reported that they invest actively: they make transactions with securities and currencies. The remaining 9%, or 47% of account holders, do not use them.

The ease of opening a brokerage account in Russia has led to two multidirectional trends: on the one hand – the growth of the client base of brokers, on the other – the formal opening of accounts “on a trial basis” and the lack of activity on them on the part of the population, notes the director of socio-economic research direction of the analytical center NAFI Ekaterina Sushko. 81% of Russians do not have special accounts for trading on the stock exchange, showed the survey NAFI. At the same time, the majority of respondents – 62% – have no desire to open a brokerage account in the near future, but 19% of respondents would like to do so.

Young Russians more often aspire to open a brokerage account (22%), among respondents over 55 years old there are fewer such people (11%).

Those who have already had such an account in the past but have not used it or have had a negative experience of trading on the stock exchange do not want to open a brokerage account. The share of such Russians among the respondents is 13%. Also those who have never had a desire to invest in the stock market – 49% of Russians surveyed – are not interested in brokerage accounts. Women are less interested in trading on the stock exchange – 54% of respondents, among men this was reported by 42%.

Russians over 55 years old do not want to invest (67% vs. 46% among young people), with secondary education (53% vs. 42% with higher education), with a monthly income of less than 30 thousand rubles (52%).

Two thirds of Russians surveyed by NAFI (68%) are to some extent interested in the topic of personal finances, savings and investments. 28% of respondents reported that they attach great importance to financial literacy in everyday life.