"Figure 6: UK financial account balances (not seasonally adjusted) ","" "Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2015 to Quarter 3 (July to Sept) 2018","" "","" "Notes","1. Q1 refers to Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar), Q2 refers to Quarter 2 (Apr to June), Q3 refers to Quarter 3 (July to Sept) and Q4 refers to Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec). Total includes reserve assets." "Unit","£ billion" "","" "","Direct investment","Portfolio investment","Other investment","Financial derivatives & employee stock options","Total" "2015 Q4","-5.6","-8.0","-20.5","-2.6","-34.7" "2016 Q1","-40.6","0.5","-14.5","29.7","-22.6" "2016 Q2","-15.0","-102.7","91.0","-15.3","-39.2" "2016 Q3","-20.7","-62.1","35.8","11.1","-33.3" "2016 Q4","-85.7","20.1","58.2","-3.9","-12.5" "2017 Q1","-9.2","0.1","-23.9","9.1","-19.8" "2017 Q2","8.8","11.4","-47.5","5.0","-20.6" "2017 Q3","24.1","-54.2","-4.1","4.7","-29.5" "2017 Q4","-11.0","-62.1","60.6","-8.3","-20.0" "2018 Q1","-17.2","-44.9","32.6","20.6","-5.5" "2018 Q2","-19.1","-110.0","127.0","-10.4","-10.4" "2018 Q3","4.1","-51.5","-0.1","13.4","-34.2"