The most popular way of investing surplus funds in Russia – real estate investment, it is preferred by almost half of Russians. The second most popular – bank deposits. True, many potential investors in Russia do not trust anyone and prefer to keep their money at home. These results gave a survey research center ROMIR Monitoring, in which surveyed 1,500 people in 100 cities and towns of Russia.
According to the study, the greatest interest for the investment is real estate. It said 44% of those surveyed. Almost half the respondents (21%) said they would be treated free money in the bank and would make a contribution. Only 5% of respondents said that they had bought a stock or securities, 2% – would invest the money in free insurance, 1% of the respondents to preserve and multiply free capital would use the services of management companies or investment funds. While 28% of respondents, when asked, said that he did not have to invest much free money whatsoever.
Buying property as a means of investing surplus funds are more attracted to the inhabitants of large cities with a population of 500 thousand people.
As the distribution of federal regions, investment in property is no longer attracted to other residents of the Southern Federal District – 52%, and least of all the respondents of the North-West region – 37%. When the free money the first thing would have gone to the bank 33% of the respondents in the Far East. Among the inhabitants of the Volga Federal District revealed more than in other regions, respondents who have invested money in stocks or insurance policies – 8% and 7% respectively. And the greatest number of respondents who do not have spare money to invest, live in the North-West Federal District – 35%.