Money should not be kept in stockings, it should be made to produce other money, and the stock market is such a vehicle. It is easy to say, it is more difficult to implement in practice.

For a long time, Romanians avoided the stock market, but the pandemic has changed the attitude towards investments. According to data from the Investor Compensation Fund (FCI) cited by BVB, the number of those who invested in the domestic capital market increased and reached an all-time high of 133,000 investors at the end of 2022. By comparison, there were almost 82,000 investors at the end of 2021, a 62% increase in one year.

Investing in the stock market is often accompanied by an adrenaline rush, and the last month has clearly demonstrated this. The bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank and the takeover of Credit Suisse by Swiss rival UBS worsened financing conditions in the market and tested the nerves of investors in global stock markets.

How accessible are investments in the stock market, how do we deal with such moments of uncertainty and how much should we panic in such situations? In this new episode of Panorama’s Inflation Education campaign, we look at how we can grow our money, and how we deal with all the uncertainties associated with such investments.

The explanation is provided by Bohdan Mugescu in a dialogue with Panorama. The founder of Atheneum Advisors, a Romanian consulting company with authorized advisor status for SMT AeRO, the alternative trading system for shares and bonds of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, he also previously worked as a business development specialist at the Bucharest Stock Exchange. .

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