Mutual funds are sold as the investment for the masses, allowing ordinary Filipinos with as little as P5,000 to get their feet wet in an instantly diversified portfolio of stocks, bonds, or both.

It was a little bit of a surprise to find out that the average mutual fund investor as of June 30, 2008 has a placement of roughly P483,820 in mutual funds — not your average Filipino, obviously. That’s an impressive little factoid.

Based on official figures from the Investment Company Association of the Philippines (ICAP), this figure is lower than the average investment size of P580,843 in December 2007, which is again lower than P622,079 in June 30, 2007.
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