Analytics, Investments, Lithuania

Mindaugas Jusius.

According to the data of Hansa Gyvybes Draudimas specialists, in June 2008 alone, about 61% of Hansa Gyvybes Draudimas investors tended to chose risky investments into shares funds. Meanwhile, in the light of the current economic situation, clients are advised to split investment portfolios more in order to achieve higher stability and reasonable growth of profit when markets recover, informs ELTA.

Hansa Gyvybes Draudimas CEO Mindaugas Jusius claims that there are two options: either Lithuanians think they are real investment professionals and are now consciously purchasing those shares, the prices of which have gone down, or they have decided that investments have to be risky anyway and therefore they correspondingly chose those investment directions that are oriented towards shares funds.

"Clients usually chose funds related to shares and investing in Latin America, Russia, the growing BRIC market (Brazil, Russia, India, China), Central East, Africa and Asia," he says.

According to specialists, investment into those investment directions that are related to shares funds only is risky in the light of the present indefinite situation on the market.

"We suggest our clients to balance their portfolios better and to direct at least half of the invested finances into bonds or other fixed interest funds," Jusius says.