{"id":21734,"date":"2024-04-19T21:04:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T21:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkadvisor.com\/2024\/04\/19\/investors-economic-optimism-dips-survey\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T21:04:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T21:04:30","slug":"investors-economic-optimism-dips-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/investors-economic-optimism-dips-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Investors&#8217; Economic Optimism Dips: Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/-\/881992100\/0\/thinkadvisor\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thinkadvisor.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/sites\/415\/2024\/03\/02_Portfolio_diversification_Pie_Chart_Adobe_640x640.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thinkadvisor.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/sites\/415\/2024\/03\/02_Portfolio_diversification_Pie_Chart_Adobe_640x640.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cYet despite economic uncertainty amid the revised pace of rate cuts for the year, along with uncertainty around the 2024 election, investors remain optimistic about the market.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dynata conducted the online survey from April 1-17 among 875 U.S. self-directed investors, investors who fully delegate investment account management to financial professionals and investors who do both. Sixty percent were male, and 40% female. The panel was broken into three levels of investable assets: less than $500,000, between $500,000 and $1 million, and more than $1 million.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Q2 Opportunities<\/h2>\n<p><span>The survey explored investor views on second-quarter sector opportunities. Amid continued interest in chipmakers and artificial intelligence, technology remained the top choice this quarter, cited by 52% of respondents.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After the first three months of the year showed glimpses of recovery from 2023, 43% of investors saw opportunity in energy as oil prices rallied to multi-month highs.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The traditionally defensive health care sector secured the third spot, cited by 36% of investors \u2014 who perhaps used it as a hedge, Morgan Stanley said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Other industries in which investors saw opportunities this quarter:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Real estate: 30%<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Financials: 27%<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Utilities: 24%<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Communication services: 20%<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Industrials: 20%<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Consumer staples: 20%<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Materials: 16%<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Consumer discretionary: 12%<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYet despite economic uncertainty amid the revised pace of rate cuts for the year, along with uncertainty around the 2024 election, investors remain optimistic about the market.\u201d&nbsp; Dynata conducted the online survey from April&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[1],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/investors-economic-optimism-dips-survey.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}