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Aug 31, 2000

Waking up

Investor relations in Germany faces a challenge as retail investors take to shares

It's an explosion in German terms. The number of individual shareholders in Germany jumped 28 percent between 1997 and 1999, from 3.9 mn to 5 mn. Juergen Kurz from the German Association for the Protection of Shareholders expects a further half million Germans to join in this year. 'There is great potential for further growth with the possibility of 10 mn private individual holders in the near future,' Kurz predicts. If private investors participating in mutual funds are taken into account,

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