Best financial products investments France 2016

This statistic shows the financial products in which it is the right time to invest, according to French people, in September 2016, by type of financial product. At that time, more than 60 percent of respondents considered that it was worth to invest in capital-guaranteed products. In addition, more than 30 percent of them considered that investing in government bonds was advisable too.

Financial products in which it would be necessary to invest, according to French people, in September 2016

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Real estate rental investment	69%
Capital guaranteed products	64%
Bonds / ST bonds	60%
Life insurance in euros	59%
Multisupport life insurance, invested in equities and bonds	55%
Gold	51%
PEA-SME *	50%
Popular retirement savings plan (PERP)	48%
Corporate bonds	48%
Innovation Mutual Funds (FCPI)	46%
Shares of civil real estate investment companies (SCPI)	45%
Stock	44%
State bonds	33%
Raw materials (oil, wheat)	28%
Short-term money market investments	28%
Structured products	19%
Funds with flexible management	18%
Absolute performance funds	13%
None of them	2%

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Release date

October 2016

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Region

France

Survey time period

September 1-14, 2016

Number of respondents

300 respondents

Method of interview

Telephone interview

Supplementary notes

The question was formulated by the source as follows: "Avez-vous le sentiment que c’est le bon moment pour investir dans …?"

The 300 people surveyed are wealthy French people holding securities or life insurance, with a level of non-real estate financial wealth of more than 30,000 euros and intending to make a financial investment within two years or having a rental property.

PEA-PME: stock savings plan for the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises.

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