"Figure 8: Portfolio investment accounted for most of the UK net inflows in Quarter 3 2019","" "UK financial account balances, Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2016 to Quarter 3 (July to Sept) 2019","" "","" "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). 2. Total includes reserve assets." "Unit","£ billion" "","" "","Direct investment","Portfolio investment","Other investment","Financial derivatives & employee stock options","Total" "2016 Q4","-98.1","19.3","64.0","-3.8","-19.8" "2017 Q1","-9.2","13.4","-21.3","9.1","-3.9" "2017 Q2","8.8","8.6","-41.9","5.0","-17.8" "2017 Q3","24.1","-52.8","-7.7","4.7","-31.7" "2017 Q4","-11.0","-63.8","56.6","-8.3","-25.6" "2018 Q1","-20.5","-49.4","26.2","20.5","-19.6" "2018 Q2","-0.2","-107.8","97.7","-10.5","-18.7" "2018 Q3","24.4","-47.1","-9.9","13.4","-19.2" "2018 Q4","-21.6","-65.3","63.3","-15.2","-25.6" "2019 Q1","23.7","113.4","-155.8","-3.3","-28.2" "2019 Q2","-10.5","19.2","-32.5","0.1","-28.3" "2019 Q3","-11.0","-80.1","29.6","25.5","-36.3"