Italians accelerate on investments: record numbers for managed assets, boom in May for the asset management companies of Piazza Affari

MILANO – The golden moment of managed savings continues. Indeed in some ways it is accelerating: after the black year of the pandemic, which led many Italians to accumulate in a conservative version for fear of what would happen to their income (metaphorically speaking, over 1,700 billion banknotes have been put under the mattresses and liquidity on current accounts has increased by 14%, to record levels) now we are witnessing phase two, the one in which savers are reuniting with financial investments.