Russia’s retail revolution

Low interest rates, lockdown boredom and super-sophisticated trading apps have lured millions of Russian retail investors into the capital markets over the past year. But will they stay for the long term?

Russia’s retail investment boom has been a long time coming. For years, brokers and policymakers exhorted the country’s citizens to put their savings into its capital markets but without success. High-yielding bank deposits and real estate remained the repository of choice, with investing a distant third place.

“After the first privatization boom in the early 90s, every year people were expecting retail investment to take off in Russia,” says Roman Zilber, head of retail at Raiffeisenbank in Moscow.

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