The number of securities accounts operated by KDPW Participants increased by over 100 thousand in 2009. There were 1,132,602 accounts at the end of December 2009, the highest number in many years. Despite a weaker sentiment on the global markets, the Warsaw Stock Exchange attracted investors with attractive offerings of new and previously listed companies.
The number of accounts remained above the 1 million mark throughout 2009. Banks and brokerage houses operated more than 1 million accounts at the end of January and their number grew month by month. The highest number of accounts was reported in November (1,149,067 accounts).
“Individual investors returned to the stock market and became more active in 2009. The Warsaw Stock Exchange was the unchallenged leader in the number of IPOs in 2009, outpacing all European stock markets. The year was successful also in terms of the size of the IPOs. This sparked interest in investments on the WSE and resulted in an increase in the number of accounts,” said KDPW CEO Iwona Sroka.
The number of new accounts grew the most in October: it went up by over 14 thousand. “This was a result of two enormous offerings on the market: the privatisation of PGE and a new issue of PKO BP. Large state-owned companies have always attracted the interest of investors. The total value of the offerings was no less than PLN 11 billion,” said Iwona Sroka.
CDM Pekao SA opened the most new accounts in 2009 (almost 44 thousand new accounts), followed by DI BRE Banku (34.5 thousand new accounts) and BM Alior Banku (over 11.2 thousand new accounts). Alior Bank was a leader in the percentage growth in the number of accounts in 2009: the broker operated only slightly more than 500 accounts at the end of January and over 11.7 thousand accounts by the end of December.
CDM Pekao SA with 201,824 accounts was the leader by total number of operated accounts at the end of 2009, followed by DI BRE Banku with 194,089 accounts and DM Pekao with 158,554 accounts.
