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IMF Co-ordinated Portfolio Investment Survey
This article presents the results of the United Kingdom's participation in the IMF's 2001 Co-ordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (CPIS) exercise.
This article presents the results of the United Kingdom's participation in the IMF's 2001 Co-ordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (CPIS) exercise.
The IMF launched the initial CPIS in 1997, with the aim of improving global statistics of holdings of external equity and debt securities, or portfolio investment assets. This is the second such exercise, presenting a full geographical breakdown by country of residence of the issuer, of the UK's stock of cross-border equities and debt securities as at end 2001.
The 2001 CPIS survey identified UK holdings of securities issued by 138 countries, the distribution being highly skewed; the value of investment in the top 10 countries accounting for 75 per cent of the total. The USA is the single country of choice for UK portfolio investors, although total holdings of EU and euro-area issued securities are significantly higher than those of the USA.
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