Investors' response to COVID-19 pandemic 2020

As of April 2020, institutional investors worldwide were ready to exploit the opportunities caused by the crisis induced by the coronavirus pandemic. According to a survey conduced among institutional investors in April 2020, 71 percent of the respondents declared that, as a consequence of the pandemic, they were planning to look for undervalued assets to invest in. This strategy was followed particularly in North America (85 percent of the respondents), while only 60 percent of the respondents from Europe, Middle East and Africa (AMEA) declared to plan to invest in undervalued assets.

Future investment strategies of institutional investors as a consequence of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic worldwide in 2020, by type and region

Characteristic	Look for undervalued assets to invest in across the spectrum	Review our entire investment strategy to ensure it is still current	Continue to diversify into alternatives and private markets and reduce exposure to listed assets	Do nothing because the market volatility has not been caused by economic/ financial issues	Fundamentally rethink our investment philosophy
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Release date

September 2020

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

April 2020

Number of respondents

650 respondents

Special properties

Institutional investors

Supplementary notes

This question was phrased by the source as follows: "Looking at your future investment strategy, to what extent are you likely to do the following based on your current assessment of the economic and financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic?"

Respondents were asked to rate on a scale of 1-10 where 1 = Very unlikely to do this and 10 = Very likely to do this. Figures report share of respondents giving answers between 7 and 10.

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