Published on: 2026-05-07
Source: Moscow Exchange – Московская Биржа –
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Investments by individuals in securities on the Moscow Exchange stock market in April 2026 increased by 1.9 times compared to April 2025 and amounted to 348.1 billion rubles.
Private investors’ investments in shares in April amounted to 45.2 billion rubles, which is 1.9 times more than in April 2025. The inflow of funds from private investors into bonds amounted to 265.5 billion rubles (+57.3% compared to April 2025). Investments in mutual funds and investment funds amounted to 37.4 billion rubles.
The number of private investors with brokerage accounts on the Moscow Exchange as of the end of April 2026 amounted to 41.1 million (+90.7 thousand in April), with more than 79 million accounts opened. At the same time, the number of qualified investors is 810 thousand. In April, more than 3 million people made deals on the Moscow Exchange.
The share of individuals in the volume of stock trades in April was 66.7%, in the volume of bond trades – 12.7%, and on the derivatives market – 54.7%.
In April, more than 572.6 thousand private investors made deals on the Moscow Exchange, and their share in stock trading was 81%.
In April 2026, the most popular securities in the portfolios of private investors were ordinary and preferred shares of Sberbank (29.6% and 7% respectively), shares of LUKOIL (12.6%), Gazprom (12.2%), VTB (11.4%), Yandex (5.9%), Rosneft (5.6%), X5 (5.5%), Polyus (5.1%), Novatek (5%).
In the top 10 Russian bond funds in the portfolios of private investors are investment funds in money market assets LQDT (44.4%), AKMM (21.1%), SBMM (17.2%) and BCSD (2.3%), AMNR (2.1%), investment fund in money market assets and bonds SAFE (2.9%), actively managed bond investment fund AKMB (2.7%), bond investment funds with floating coupon AKFB (3.1%) and SBFR (2.2%), and corporate bonds in rubles SBRB (2%).
The most popular IPO papers from the MOEX Index among private investors at the end of April 2026 were shares of DOM.RF (DOMRF), Europlan (LEAS), Ozon Pharmaceuticals (OZPH), MTS-Bank (MBNK), Promomed (PRMD), Arenadata Group (DATA), VI.ru (VSEH), IVA (IVAT), Zaymer (ZAYM), Glorax (GLRX).
The number of individual investment accounts (IIAs) as of the end of April amounted to 6.3 million (+14.7 thousand in April). The trading turnover on IIAs in April 2026 totaled 324.8 billion rubles. In the turnover structure, 47% were transactions with shares, 23% with bonds, and 30% with investment fund units.
Regions – leaders in the number of open IICs: Moscow (643.2 thousand accounts), Moscow Region (373.4 thousand), and Saint Petersburg (311.9 thousand). They are followed by Krasnodar Krai (208.4 thousand), Sverdlovsk Region (204.8 thousand accounts), the Republic of Bashkortostan (188.1 thousand), Tatarstan (172.3 thousand), Rostov Region (165.1 thousand), Chelyabinsk Region (150.8 thousand), and Samara Region (142.3 thousand).
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