SEATTLE-“2014 is going to go down in history as being a very strong year for the Western advanced economies.” So says Walter Boettcher, director of research and forecasting for Colliers International in London. “The picture is quite good,” Colliers senior research analyst Bruno Berretta concurs. The majority of respondents in the firm's recent global investor sentiment report expect volumes to be stronger in 2015 and 2014, which, according to Berretta, “underlines an improving confidence among investors.”
The global investor sentiment topic is detailed in the latest edition of Colliers International's Knowledge Leader magazine. According to Berretta, “we are moving in the right direction.”
Colliers conducts the massive study to assess the thinking, mood and sentiment of the market, surveying a cross section of investment managers specializing in everything from institutional to private equity funds.
“There are a few private investors included as well, but primarily it's the institutional and large-scale funds,” Boettcher explains.
According to Colliers, the survey showed a strong preference by the majority of investors to keep the bulk of their portfolios onshore, with the US being the favored market for foreign investments.
Still, Boettcher says, don't count out emerging markets. “As more stable countries taper quantitative easing, “it's well documented that … there were significant capital outflows from the emerging markets,” he says. But, “the fundamentals in a lot of these emerging markets are not really that bad.”
The winter issue also has an interesting article on flexible office space and how Regis, a global provider of flexible workspace, is meeting the demand. In another interesting story, Going Global, Global Relay's CEO and founder, Warren Roy, talks about technology, taking a leap of faith and the key factors to business success.
Click here to see the full issue of Knowledge Leader.
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