OREANDA-NEWS In September, the number of Russians with a brokerage account on the Moscow Stock Exchange increased by 437 thousand people, to 33.8 million users. This is reported by the press service of the trading platform.

In the first month of autumn, citizens began to invest more — they invested 123.4 billion rubles in stock market instruments. 3.8 million private investors signed deals on the stock exchange in September.

"Individuals have reduced the volume of investments in shares by 11.6 billion rubles, while increasing the volume of investments in fund units to a record 70 billion rubles. The volume of investments in bonds is 65.1 billion rubles," the representatives of the site explained.

The number of individual investment accounts (IIS) opened on the Moscow Exchange has grown to 5.86 million. The trade turnover on such accounts increased to 243.4 billion rubles, of which 71 percent were transactions with shares, 9 percent with bonds and 20 percent with fund units.

In August, the number of individuals who opened accounts on the Moscow Exchange increased by 1.6 percent on a monthly basis, and reached 33.3 million. In addition, in the last month of summer, almost four million private investors signed deals on the stock exchange. The total volume of investments on the stock market of the Moscow Stock Exchange reached 110.1 billion rubles.