85% of Singaporeans will adopt a more conservative investment strategy in 2014

After trauma from recent market events.

In response to the market events over the past few years, 85 per cent of Singaporean investors plan to adopt a more conservative investment strategy this year, according to the survey results from Franklin Templeton’s Global Investor Sentiment Survey 2014.

When asked what factors are making them reluctant to invest in 2014, Singaporean investors cited the state of the U.S. economy (39 per cent) and the slow and uncertain economic outlook for the Eurozone (32 per cent) as two of their top concerns.

The state of the global economy (32 per cent) also continues to keep investors at bay.

It was further revealed that the primary concerns of Singaporean investors for investing outside Singapore are lack of knowledge of other markets and the impact of exchange rates on investment returns.

While Singaporean investors expect the rate of return from their investments for 2014 (7.7 per cent) to be lower than their prediction had been in 2013 (8.7 per cent) due to economic uncertainty, respondents still expect their annual rates of return to increase over time.