{"id":387775,"date":"2026-04-08T08:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/387775\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:27:14","slug":"investment-funds-mask-scale-of-irish-households-market-exposure-central-bank-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/387775\/","title":{"rendered":"Investment funds mask scale of Irish households\u2019 market exposure, Central Bank report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">However, these funds make up only a small portion of Irish households\u2019 financial assets, which are dominated by property and cash deposits\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Central Bank of Ireland. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/7deb7d83-d653-4a6b-be26-25f8255f3919.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Central Bank of Ireland. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Irish households hold significantly more stocks and bonds than previously thought, a study published by the Central Bank has found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The additional exposure to the markets comes through investment funds \u2013 where your money is pooled with that of other investors in a wide array of assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, these funds make up only a small portion of Irish households\u2019 financial assets, which are dominated by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3468,32880,72,20927,113,61,3938,60,5243,1226,1071,1188,812],"class_list":{"0":"post-387775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-apple-company","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-central-bank-of-ireland","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-investments","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-john-burns","17":"tag-meta","18":"tag-microsoft","19":"tag-tesla","20":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}