Published on: 2026-10-09
Source: Moscow Exchange –
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The volume of investments by individuals in securities on the Moscow Exchange stock market in September 2026 amounted to 237.1 billion rubles.
Private investors in September invested 6.8 billion rubles in stocks, and 210.6 billion rubles in bonds. The inflow into mutual funds amounted to 19.7 billion rubles, which is 3.2 times more than in September 2025.
The number of private investors with brokerage accounts on the Moscow Exchange reached 42.7 million as of the end of September 2026 (+244.2 thousand in September), with more than 81.9 million accounts opened by them. In September, nearly 3 million people made trades on the Moscow Exchange, of whom more than 337.8 thousand were qualified investors.
The share of retail investors in stock trading volume in September was 66.5%, in bond trading volume – 10.5%, and in the derivatives market – 45.2%.
In September 2026, to the People’s Portfolio of the private investor of the Moscow Exchange[1] common and preferred shares of Sberbank (30.4% and 6.9%, respectively), shares of LUKOIL (14.8%), Gazprom (12.3%), VTB (7.1%), T-Technology (6.8%), Yandex (5.8%), Rosneft (5.5%), Novatek (5.5%), and X5 (4.9%).
In the portfolio of a private investor’s BPIF 83.5% are occupied by money market funds – LQDT (44.3%), AKMM (18.2%), SBMM (17.1%), BCSD (2.4%), and AMNR (1.9%). The portfolio also included bond investment funds with a floating coupon SBFR (5.1%) and AKFB (4.6%), a money market and bond asset investment fund SAFE (3.4%), an actively managed bond investment fund AKMB (1.6%), and corporate ruble-denominated bonds SBRB (4.8%).
The most popular securities from the Moscow Exchange Index IPO in private investor transactions as of September 2026 were shares of APRI, Basis Group (BAZA), B2B-RTS (BTBR), Arenadata Group (DATA), DOM.RF (DOM.RF), Glorax (GLRX), IVA (IVAT), Europlan (LEAS), Lambumiz (LMBZ), and MTS Bank (MBNK).
The number of individual investment accounts (IIAs) at the end of September amounted to 6.4 million. The trading turnover on IIA accounts in September 2026 was 301.7 billion rubles. In the turnover structure, 47.8% were transactions with stocks, 25.3% with bonds, and 26.9% with mutual fund shares.
Regions leading in the number of opened IIS accounts: Moscow (658.4 thousand accounts), Moscow Oblast (383.1 thousand), and Saint Petersburg (323.1 thousand). They are followed by Krasnodar Krai (217.9 thousand), Sverdlovsk Oblast (212.9 thousand accounts), Republic of Bashkortostan (193.8 thousand), Tatarstan (175.3 thousand), Rostov Oblast (171.6 thousand), Chelyabinsk Oblast (154.8 thousand), and Samara Oblast (145.4 thousand).
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