FYI: The Yale School of Management runs a monthly sentiment survey on both individual and institutional investors. Four questions are asked of investors, and below we provide charts showing the historical results through September 2017. The first chart shows the results for Yale’s “One-Year Confidence” reading which asked respondents how confident they are that the stock market will be higher a year from now.
As you can see, this reading amazingly spiked to nearly 100% in mid-2017 for institutional investors, and it got above 90% for individual investors. Over the last few months, however, bullish sentiment towards the stock market has dropped dramatically, and at this point investors surveyed are less optimistic towards stocks than they were just prior to last November’s Presidential Election.
Regards,
Ted
https://www.bespokepremium.com/think-big-blog/investor-sentiment-dips-in-yale-confidence-surveys/
