Foreign investors on the stock market in Poland

The aim of the study is to analyse the activity of foreign investors on the stock market in Poland in the period between 2006 and 2016. Foreign investors generated over a half of trading in shares on the Main Market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange in the first half of 2016. It is important to define which factors determine so high turnover value of foreign investors. The article focuses primarily on the relationship between the profitability of stock exchange investments in shares counted in Euro and the activity of foreign investors. The profitability of investments on the WSE has been determined on the basis of the rates of return of two main indices WIG and WIG20 expressed in Euro. The activity of foreign investors was measured with the turnover value of this investor group.