Datamonitor's Retail Savings & Investments: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the retail savings & investments industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards

* Covers the Global, European and Asia-Pacific markets as well as individual chapters on 5 major markets (France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US).

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The Global retail savings and investments market grew by 5.1% in 2007 to reach a value of $57,361.5 billion.

In 2012, the Global retail savings and investments market is forecast to have a value of $74,899 billion, an increase of 30.6% since 2007.

Deposits form the largest segment of the Global Retail Savings & Investments market, accounting for 49.9% of the market's value.

The America's account for 46.6% of the Global market's value.

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Market Definition

This retail savings and investment market profile covers four non-life retail savings and investment products: deposits, mutual funds, direct investment in equity and direct investment in bonds. The market is valued as the total amount invested in these four products at the end of each year. Any currency conversions used in this report have been calculated using constant 2006 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report the Americas comprise Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the US.

Europe comprises Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, China, Japan, India, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

The global market comprises the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.