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Investor confidence drops sharply
PRESS RELEASE
Auckland, 15 April
2008
New Zealand investors look towards Australia and China for future overseas investment opportunities
Investor confidence
across Asia (ex-Japan, New Zealand and Australia) declined
by 7.4% in the first quarter of 2008, according to the
latest results of the ING Investor Dashboard Investor
Sentiment Survey which were released today. In New
Zealand, investor confidence fell by 23.7% during the same
period.
ING’s quarterly survey, which tracks investor sentiment against a range of investment behaviours across 13 Asia Pacific markets , highlighted that the region is not insulated from global market uncertainty caused by the credit crunch, sub-prime crisis and the slowdown in the U.S. economy. The index suggests that most Asian investors have become more cautious in their investment strategies.
Overall the Asian index highlighted that investor confidence had declined by 7.4% across the region to 125 out of 200 for Q1 2008, down from 135 in Q4 2007 and from the high of 141, which was recorded in ING’s first survey in Q3 2007.
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