Apr 15, 2014
IROs believe things are looking up in the investment markets.
There’s one frustration all researchers share: when a client or someone you are reporting to dismisses the value of your findings because those findings conform to his or her expectations. ‘Tell me something I don’t already know!’ he or she might exclaim, to which our reply would be (if we were brave enough), ‘We have: before, you thought it; now, you know it.’
We mention this because the headline finding in this section will be entirely unsurprising to many of our readers. It is that IROs – particularly in the West – view the investment markets in 2013 with considerably more positivity than in previous years.
Hopefully, however,