Investment funds 1st quarter, 2021
Continued large net investments in investment funds
Statistical news from Statistics Sweden and Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority 2021-05-25 9.30
Total fund wealth amounted to SEK 5 707 billion at the end of the first quarter of 2021, which is SEK 498 billion more than in the previous quarter. As in the previous quarter, the increase came from large net investments and a positive stock exchange development.
Developments in the first quarter in brief
- Total net investments amounted to SEK 74 billion.
- Households’ net investments amounted to SEK 13 billion.
- Swedish financial enterprises was the sector in which fund wealth increased the most, by SEK 358 billion, of which premium pension accounted for SEK 151 billion.
- Foreign owners’ holdings in Swedish-registered funds increased by SEK 30 billion and amounted to SEK 218 billion.
- The largest increase in the first quarter, SEK 374 billion, was noted in the fund category equity funds, and was the result of strong development in the stock market and net investments amounting to SEK 50 billion.
- Bond and money market funds was the category with the weakest development. The decrease of SEK 10 billion mainly came from net sales.
- Fund-of-funds accounted for the second largest increase, SEK 56 billion, followed by an increase of SEK 36 billion in other funds.
- Households’ directly-owned fund wealth amounted to SEK 1 040 billion in the first quarter, which is SEK 84 billion more than in the previous quarter and SEK 304 billion more than in the first quarter of 2020.
- In the household sector, the largest increase was in equity funds, at SEK 54 billion, while the value of the household sector’s bond and money market funds decreased by SEK 1 billion.
- In terms of total fund wealth in the household sector, the equity funds category remains unequivocally the largest category, at SEK 571 billion, followed by SEK 190 billion in fund-of-funds.
Swedish krona exchange rate was strengthened
The average exchange rate for one euro was SEK 10.12 in the first quarter of 2021, compared with SEK 10.28 in the previous quarter. The Swedish krona was also strengthened against the US dollar, at an average exchange rate of SEK 8.40, compared with SEK 8.63 in the previous quarter. This means that fund investment in foreign currency decreased in value calculated in Swedish kronor.
Number of active funds in the statistics
There were 781 active funds in the first quarter of 2021, which is nine more than in the previous quarter.
Source: Statistics Sweden
Definitions and explanations
These statistics cover Swedish-registered investment funds. Both mutual funds and special funds are included in the statistics. The category ‘Other funds’ includes funds that could not be classified according to any other category, such as hedge funds.
The Swedish financial enterprises sector includes unit-linked funds and premium pension savings, as well as holdings by financial corporations that may have households as final owners.
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