Saving is increasingly a mirage for Italians: 40% spend everything they earn, while 31% get into debt or eat into cash savings. Only 28% manage to put something aside, a figure that is clearly down compared to 35% in 2011. This is what emerges from the latest Acri-Ipsos survey on "Italians and Savings". And tomorrow in Rome it will be staged "Saving Day", an appointment organized at the Palazzo della Cancelleria by the association of banking foundations.
The numbers of the survey show that, despite the difficulties, Italians remain savers in their DNA: 47% cannot live peacefully without putting something aside, a growing percentage compared to previous years (it was 44% in 2011 and 41% in 2010).
As for the destination of the savings, two out of three Italians prefer liquidity. The "brick" remains the ideal investment for only 35% of Italians, confirming a downward trend (70% in 2006, 54% in 2010 and 43% in 2011).
The Italians who consider this the best time to invest in instruments deemed safer (postal savings, bonds and government bonds) reach an all-time high of 32%.
The number of those who generally believe it is wrong to invest is also growing strongly (18% in 2010, 23% in 2011, 28% in 2012), while the lovers of products more at risk are constant (always around 5%). In the end, only 19% of Italians feel able to assess the reliability of an investment.
