31/03/2011
State Street confidence index up in February
The global institutional investor confidence index published by State Street Global Markets for the month of March came to 98.3 points, up 6.5 points from a corrected level of 91.8 in February 2011. The rise was most marked in North America, where the index rose by 10.5 points, from 92.5 (corrected level) to 103. In Asia, the confidence index has risen from 91.5 (corrected level) to 100.2. However, in Europe, investor confidence was down from 79.3 in February to 64.3, a fall of 15 points. “It is likely that continuing uncertainty about the form and scale of the Euro Pact, one of a variety of measures to resolve the sovereign debt crisis, and uncertainty about elections in Germany, have contributed to European institutional investors’ reserve compared with their counterparts in the rest of the world,” says Ken Froot (Harvard), who developed the index with State Street Associates.
