Cac 40: Despite the storms, 81% of French individual shareholders remain convinced of the stock market


(BFM Bourse) – According to a survey carried out by OpinionWay for the online bank Fortuneo, a very large majority of individual shareholders believe that the stock market remains an attractive investment in the medium and long term. Young investors are particularly optimistic.

With galloping inflation, rising interest rates, tensions in supply chains, the zero-Covid-19 policy in China and the conflict in Ukraine, there are many turmoil in the markets this year.

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OpnionWay for online banking Fortuneo published this Thursday. According to the results, 81% of individual shareholders believe that the stock market remains an attractive investment over the medium and long term.

A nuance however: the proportion which considers that the market proves to be “very interesting” remains relatively measured at 18%, against 63% who consider this investment to be “quite interesting”.

“This survey reveals that despite the context and inflation, stock market investment still appeals,” explains Gregory Guermonprez, director of Fortuneo.

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The stock market ticks all the right boxes for small investors. Thus, they are 83% to estimate that it constitutes a good means of making profitable its capital, 78% to judge that it makes it possible to obtain a profitability higher than the inflation and 68% that it is a question of an appropriate investment to have additional income.

These proportions include both respondents judging that the stock market allows “totally” or “rather” to carry out such and such an action.

Young people, ie investors under 35, are the most optimistic. Half of them believe that the stock market is “absolutely” a means of making one’s capital grow, 34% consider that it allows everything to be done to generate profitability exceeding inflation, and 49% consider that it quite a supplement to income.

“There is a historic rejuvenation of stock market investors. At Fortuneo, for example, 50% of new shareholders are now under 32 years old, whereas previously our median age was around 48 years old. Many of them want to take context-related opportunities, and they were right”, comments Gregory Guermonprez.

This is reflected in the future management of their investments. While only 55% of shareholders plan to be active in the next few months to seize opportunities or avoid losses, this proportion rises to 80% among those under 35. Young shareholders therefore have a much more pronounced appetite for risk.

Furthermore, to the question “which investment will you be concentrating on in the coming months, given the current environment?”, 37% of respondents cite the stock market via a PEA or an ordinary securities account, to the detriment of savings accounts (23%), life insurance (18%) or real estate (10%). But here again the proportion is much higher (48%) among those under 35 years old.

The Fortuneo survey was carried out via interviews carried out from September 14 to 21 on a sample of 400 individual shareholders having carried out at least one transaction during the last twelve months from a representative sample of 702 individual shareholders. The sample was drawn up according to the quota method with regard to the criteria of sex, age, socio-professional category, categories of agglomeration and region of residence. The sample was drawn up by interviewing people using a self-administered online questionnaire on the CAWI (Computer Assisted Web interview) system.Julien Marion – ©2022 BFM Bourse



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