Austria invests: Every third person relies on securities!

Austria invests: Every third person relies on securities!

The trend towards investment in securities is booming in Austria: According to a current survey by the "stock barometer", which was carried out by the industrial association, the equity forum and the Viennese stock exchange, now have 30 percent of the Austrian population - this corresponds to around 2.3 million people - stocks, bonds or ETFs. This development shows that the stock exchange is increasingly recognized as an important instrument for private retirement provision and is no longer only reserved for the wealthy, as The Krone reports.

The situation is similar in Germany. In 2022, around 18.3 percent of the population aged 14 and over had shares in companies or equity funds, which corresponds to around 12.9 million people. The proportion of investors has increased steadily in recent years: in 2017 only eleven percent if there were 15 percent in 2021. Every sixth German is involved in the stock market, as note the finance

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