Meanwhile, the EIU identified an oil price spike, tied in part to tensions over Iran’s nuclear program, to be the main obstacle to global growth.
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A survey of some 800 institutional investors and corporate executives drawn from 77 different countries, The Search for Growth: Opportunities and Risk for Institutional Investors in 2012 examined investor views about the prospects for growth across a range of asset classes, sectors and regions.
According to the survey, global investors feel moderately optimistic about growth prospects over the next 12 months, in large part to the apparent stabilization of the European debt markets.
But opinions among survey respondents and interviewees vary widely according to region – especially given the dramatically different growth prospects of emerging Asian and euro zone countries.
The EIU research found that, while investors appear buoyed by recent events, the fundamentals of the global economy have not improved significantly, and new risks have arisen to replace older ones.
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