Investors still upbeat about stocks: poll

LIKE last year, stocks, property and precious metals are expected to be the best-performing assets this year and for the next decade - but with altered levels of optimism.

Franklin Templeton's Global Investor Sentiment Survey 2014, which polled 502 Singaporeans online between Jan 2 and 15, found that optimism for stocks has risen, but that for property and precious metals has fallen.

Nearly a third (32 per cent) of the respondents said that they were more optimistic about stocks, up four percentage points from last year. Only 19 per cent said that they were optimistic about property, down four percentage points from last year; similarly, precious metals have also lost their gleam since last year, with the number saying they were optimistic about this asset class falling from 17 per cent to 11 per cent.