Provisional estimates for portfolio investment assets held abroad by entities resident in Malta registered €100 billion at the end of last year.
The National Statistics Office said a Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey, was carried out annually by a number of countries under the patronage of the International Monetary Fund.
This measured the market value of total security assets held abroad by entities resident in a country.
Total securities at the end of last year amounted to €100 billion, an increase of €15.4 billion over 2013. Equity securities totalled €71.5 billion, accounting for 71.5 per cent of total securities.
Equity securities increased by €7.4 billion over the previous year’s position. Total debt securities, predominantly long-term securities, stood at €28.3 billion at the end of 2014. These also registered an increase of €7.8 billion over 2013.
Of the known geographical allocation of securities, Turkey remained the predominant country where portfolio assets were held, mainly as long-term securities.