Statistics

On the Bucharest Stock Exchange there are over 91,700 investors, 2800 fewer than at the beginning of the year, the bulk of whom have shares worth less than 15,000 euros in their portfolios, the cap for full compensation in case of losses generated by the bankruptcy of a brokerage firm.The overall value of portfolios held by Stock Exchange investors has fallen by 94 million RON (22 million euros) in the first nine months of the year to 11.4 billion RON (2.68 billion euros), while the number of investment accounts fell by 2,790 in the first nine months, to 91,721, according to statistics supplied by the Investors Compensation Fund - the institution in charge of compensating investors in case of a broker's bankruptcy.