SINGAPORE (Feb 1): State Street Global Exchange’s Global Investor Confidence Index (Global ICI) continues to decline on a global scale, falling 0.3 points from Dec 2016’s revised reading of 94.1 to 93.8 in Jan 2017.

The ICI measures investor confidence or risk appetite by analysing actual buying and selling patterns of institutional investors where the greater the percentage allocation to equities, the higher the risk appetite or confidence.

A reading of 100 is neutral, and indicates that investors are not increasing or decreasing their long-term allocations to risky assets.

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