Provisional estimates for 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.

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 by entities resident in a country.

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 at the end of 2013, 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 accounts for 12.4 per cent of total securities, predominantly long-term debt securities. It is followed by the United Kingdom, France and Ireland respectively.

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