Over the year 2000 as a whole, individual investors increased their share in total turnover on the equity market to 50%, as compared with 44% in 1999. On the bond market, their share in 2000 was 54%; and on the futures market, 85%.

The average number of orders per session (on the equity market) in 2000 was 38,500; the number of transactions per session, nearly 15,000.

Foreign investors were less active in 2000. Their share in turnover on WSE's equity market was 28%, compared with 34% in 1999, and 39% in 1998. The share of foreign traders in bond turnover for 2000 was a mere 2%, the same as on the futures market.

Polish institutional investors had a 22% share in turnover on the equity market, 44% in bonds, and 13% in the futures market

Twenty-five new investment funds came to the market in 2000. At the end of that year, 21 investment fund corporations were managing 93 funds. At year's end, they had a total of 6.5 billion zloty in assets entrusted to them. At the end of 2000, brokerage houses registered over 1.2 million investment accounts. The majority of them, however, are dormant, with about 300,000 actively trading. Still, only about 5% of adult Poles use stocks or bonds as a means of investing or saving.