Consumer IT investment appears to have peaked out, with only 35 % of
respondents expecting an increase in that field.
More specifically, 61 % of
respondents expected increased investment in business IT, while 57 % predict a rise in investment in health - care IT.
This trend shows no sign of declining: over one quarter of
all respondents expect an increase in the number of legal disputes in the next year.
Like the regulatory and litigation spheres, businesses expect the trend for increased exposure to arbitration to continue: nearly one third of UK
respondents expect an increase in the number of international arbitrations in 2011.
The majority of
respondents expect an increase in both short - term and long - term mortgage rates in the coming year.
Not exact matches
Analysts at UBS said a net 30 percent of corporate
respondents to its Evidence Lab Survey said they
expected to
increase capex over the next year.
The average
expected spend amongst all
respondents this year is 1,761 renminbi, or $ 277 — an
increase of 22 percent from last year, Nielsen added.
The central bank found that 39 % of
respondents said they planned to
increase investment over the next 12 months, while 32 % said they
expected little change from current levels and 30 % predicted a decline.
In 2007, the inflation rate was approximately 2.5 %, and the
respondents expected only a modest
increase in the rate to 2.7 % this year.
Following a national survey of 1,054 total
respondents, including 616 employers and 438 job seekers, the study revealed that 63 % of employers
expect hiring volume to
increase in 2017 compared to 2016.
When asked about the
expected impact that external - affairs issues will have on their companies» income in the next three to five years, 42 percent of
respondents believe their income will decrease, 15 percent believe it will stay the same, 33 percent believe it will
increase, and 11 percent say they don't know or it's not applicable.
The demand to
increase real estate investment is still healthy, although it does represent a slight dip compared to the 2016 survey, when 59 percent of
respondents expected allocations to rise and 32 percent predicted allocations to remain steady.
This uncertainty seems to have led to
increased levels of stress and anxiety, with 70 % of all US
respondents reporting stress this year when thinking about retirement savings and investments, versus 67 % in 2015.5 Of those
respondents who reported experiencing significant stress when thinking about their retirement savings, 65 % didn't know how much of their retirement savings they currently withdraw / spend or
expect to withdraw / spend on an annual basis in retirement.
The latest ACCI - Westpac survey contained a sharp
increase in the net balance of
respondents expecting to raise prices in the September quarter, and the ACM survey also shows an
expected pick - up in selling prices from a couple of quarters ago.
Regardless of whether involvement in online dating
increases or decreases with age, we
expected to find a negative association between
respondent age and rated satisfaction with non-Internet ways of finding romantic partners.
However, when the survey defined them as «publicly funded» schools that are «not managed by the local school board» that «are
expected to meet promised objectives, but are exempt from many state regulations,» the amount of
respondents who expressed no opinion dropped to 21 percent while support
increased from 34 percent to 51 percent and opposition
increased from 17 percent to 28 percent.
Remarkable ebook market growth
expected in next 2 years — 94 % of
respondents expect that ebooks will
increase as a share of books read in their school / district over the next two years.
Looking ahead, 38.4 % of survey
respondents from Ontario
expect U.S. inquiries into Canadian real estate to
increase following today's Trump inauguration.
What's more, 10.2 percent of the
respondents reported that they
expected an
increase in their income (up from 8.3 percent).
More than 80 % of
respondents from each region, for instance,
expect moderate or significant
increases in utility - scale solar.
In 2018, the number is down to 55 %, and
respondents from the West Coast — home to ambitious carbon goals — are more likely to
expect a decrease in gas generation than an
increase.
«In a survey of its members conducted by SMART, 40 per cent of
respondents said they have been forced to reduce their staffing levels by one - quarter or more and
expect that number to
increase to half if the ban goes into effect as planned in 2019.»
Data protection experts across all 28 EU member states were asked whether they
expected data protection litigation to rise, and most
respondents agreed that compensation claims would
increase.
Over one quarter of US and UK
respondents expect the number of regulatory proceedings they face to
increase in the coming year, compared to only 12 % last year.
In 2018, the largest proportion of
respondents (40 per cent)
expects a pay rise of between 3 - 6 per cent while 18 per cent
expect an
increase of up to three per cent.
More than half of resource and mining employers say productivity is affected by talent shortages, and
respondents are more optimistic about next year with 88 per cent
expecting increased or stable business activity.
The seventh annual Hays Salary Guide has revealed a 19 per cent spike in confidence for a strengthening Canadian economy next year and nearly two - thirds of
respondents expect their business activity will
increase.
Where 37 per cent of
respondents say permanent staffing levels
increased in 2014, nearly half (47 %)
expect to
increase permanent headcount in 2015.
The largest proportion of candidate
respondents in Singapore (36 per cent)
expect a pay rise of more than six per cent while 30 per cent
expect a salary
increase of between 3 to 6 per cent.
Just over half of
respondents (51 percent)
expect total returns to
increase for the balance of 2016.
Nearly 73 percent of
respondents expect lending activity to
increase in the next 12 months.
The vast majority of
respondents (85 percent)
expect rents to rise in their markets over the next 12 months with an anticipated mean
increase of 2.9 percent.
Overall, 46 percent of
respondents said they
expect publicly - traded REIT stock prices to
increase.
But 94 percent of
respondents that
expect an
increase in total returns said the
increase would be by 50 basis points or less.
Respondents expect that green building ownership and management will
increase dramatically in just a few short years.
The proportion of
respondents who feel to be financially worse off (compared to year ago)
increased by 1.6 percentage points to 23.9 percent, while the proportion of
respondents who
expect to be financially better off in a year (compared to today)
increased by 1.3 percentage points to 37.4 percent.
More than three - fourths (78 %) of
respondents expect long - term rates to
increase in 2011, which is slightly higher than the 73 % who held the same view a year ago [Figure 4].
When asked specifically about their region,
respondents were a tad more bearish, with just 24 percent
expecting further decreases, 16 percent seeing no change and 60 percent
expecting cap rate
increases.
• 18 percent of
respondents expect home prices to
increase over the next 12 months (the lowest reported number to date in the National Housing Survey), while 25 percent say they
expect home prices to decline (down by 2 percentage points since August).
On average,
respondents expect home rental prices to
increase by 4.1 percent over the next 12 months, a significant
increase since February, and the highest number recorded to date.
Survey
respondents expect home prices to
increase 1.7 percent in the next 12 months, down slightly from the survey high of 2.0 percent recorded in June.
Thirty - three percent of
respondents expect home prices to
increase over the next 12 months, a five percentage point
increase from last month, the highest level over the past 12 months.
Looking forward to 2017, most
respondents expect HNWI to either
increase their allocations (59 percent) or keep them at the same level (32 percent).
According to exclusive research from NREI's 2017 HNWI Research Report, 55 percent of
respondents expect HNWIs to
increase allocations to real estate in 2018, while 36 percent
expect allocations to remain the same and only 9 percent anticipate a drop.
More than half of
respondents (55.1 percent) also
expect an
increase in the so - called risk premium, the spread between the 10 - year Treasury rates and retail cap rates.
The demand to
increase real estate investment is still healthy, although it does represent a slight dip compared to the 2016 survey, when 59 percent of
respondents expected allocations to rise and 32 percent predicted allocations to remain steady.
Overall, 39 percent of
respondents anticipate a modest rate
increase of less than 1 percent; 10 percent said 1 to 2 percent; 11 percent said 2 to 3 percent; and 7 percent
expect rents to rise by more than 3 percent.
In both cases, about two - thirds of
respondents expect cap rates to
increase (67 percent for CBD, 70 percent for suburban), while less than one - fifth
expect cap rates to decrease (19 percent for both CBD and suburban).
For debt service coverage ratios, nearly two - fifths of
respondents (38.5 percent)
expect an
increase, while 8.4 percent
expect them to decrease.
In addition, the proportion of
respondents expecting their income to
increase fell by 2.0 percentage points.