What to store savings? Ask the Central Bank

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The Central Bank of the countries of the world prefer about 2/3 of their foreign exchange reserves to store in American dollars. This follows from the database of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Cofer , which was today updated by data for the first quarter of 2013 (the previous update took place on March 29). The IMF collects data for 144 states. Central Bank is very conservative institutions, and it is natural that from the quarter to the quarter, values ​​change slowly.

Who, besides professional economists, can be useful? Well, for example, to those who think about what currency to store savings. Of course, the Central Bank takes into account not only the reliability of the currency, but also many other factors, in particular - with which states his country trade. The structure of the costs of currencies for an ordinary citizen and averaged for all countries of the world are, of course, different things. Nevertheless, to find out that the Central Bank think about investments in dollars, euros and yen - a useful idea.

The composition of the reserves of the Central Bank of the World located in the currency for the first quarter of 2013, $ million

Source: IMF