Nearly 45% of investors aged between 25 and 35 invest in these funds which replicate a stock market index (CAC 40, Nasdaq, etc.).
It’s a way to easily take your first steps on the stock market. ETFs (for exchange traded funds), these funds which replicate the performance of a stock index (Dax, CAC 40, Nasdaq, S&P 500, etc.) or a basket of stocks are now on the rise, especially among young people. « In the first half of the year, more than a third of investors under 45 years chose ETFs for their first transaction »notes the Financial Markets Authority (AMF).
This trend is particularly marked among investors aged between 25 and 35: over the whole of 2024, nearly 45% of them bought or sold ETFs, while there were only 11, 7% in 2019. This enthusiasm caused the average age of ETF holders to drop from 61.1 years in 2019 to 41.3 years in the second quarter 2024, underlines the Stock Exchange policeman.
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By comparison, the rejuvenation of investors in shares (purchased directly on the market) is much less pronounced, with the average age falling from 60.7 years to 52.3 years.
Quadrupled in five years
ETFs do, it is true, have advantages: these funds, whose performance is very readable, are accessible from trading applications and above all their fees are very low (from one euro).
Popular in many countries (United States, Germany, Great Britain, etc.), ETFs took time to break through in France. But the movement is now well underway. The number of French savers investing in these funds has quadrupled in five years.
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And the trend is accelerating: during the first six months of the year, new investors were three times more numerous than the previous year. The number of transactions exploded, going from 87,000 in the first quarter of 2019 to more than 1.1 million in the second quarter of 2024, notes the AMF.
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