Portfolio investment assets held abroad by entities resident in Malta amounted to €84.6 billion as at the end of 2013, the National Statistics Office said today, quoting provisional estimates.
 
It said the Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (CPIS) is an annual exercise carried out by a number of countries under the patronage of the International Monetary Fund. The survey measures the market value of total security assets held abroad. This data, shown by type of security, is further broken down by country/territory where the financial assets are invested.

Provisional figures for total securities as at end 2013 stood at €84.7 billion, an increase of €5.4 billion over the corresponding period in 2012. Equity securities accounted for 75.7 per cent of total securities in 2013, amounting to €64.0 billion, an increase of 11.4 per cent over the level recorded in 2012.

Total debt securities amounted to €20.4 billion, these being almost all long-term securities. Debt securities registered a decrease of 5.3 per cent over the level
a year earlier.

Of the known geographical allocation of securities, Turkey accounted for 12.4 per cent of total securities, predominantly long-term debt securities. It was followed by the United Kingdom, France and Ireland.

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