Investment instruments of capital market: innovations and incentives

The article presents an overview of investment opportunities provided by the Russian stock market in 2018. Innovations of the market in terms of creating new market instruments, new rules of taxation of investors ' income are considered. The article presents a critical look at the recent changes in the taxation of income from securities transactions. It is hypothesized that the influence of the studied factors has insufficient impact on the development of the Russian stock market. From these positions, the analysis of the current state of the Russian securities market for the period 2017-2018 is carried out and the strengths and weaknesses of its functioning are revealed.