State Street Institutional
Investor Indicators
Investment insights based on facts, not surveys

The State Street Institutional Investor Indicators provide investors, policymakers, and the public with insights into the aggregated and anonymized positioning, risk appetite, and portfolio carbon exposures of thousands of institutional investors around the world, representing trillions of dollars in assets.

State Street Institutional Investor
Risk Appetite Indicator

The Risk Appetite Indicator quantifies the degree to which the trading patterns of institutional investors are risk seeking or averse, on a scale of -100% (most risk averse) to 100% (most risk seeking).

Key Facts
  • The Institutional Investor Risk Appetite Indicator measures the buying and selling of risky assets across 22 dimensions of risk
  • These range across asset classes: equities, fixed-income, cash, and foreign exchange
  • Key dimensions include stock versus cash allocations, cyclical versus defensive equities, high-yield versus investment-grade corporate bonds, and US Dollar currency flows
  • Released monthly
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Holdings

The State Street Holdings indicators show that long-term investor allocations to equities have continued their reverse from the post-global financial crisis highs earlier in the year. During March, outflows from equities of 0.75% were offset by inflows into bonds and cash of 0.4% and 0.35%, respectively. 

RiskAppetite

The State Street Risk Appetite Index fell to -0.09 in March, as investors continue their retracement from risk assets towards a more cautious and defensive multi-asset stance.

Risk Appetite