Private Investors Buy Stocks Following Trump’s Election

Private Investors Buy Stocks Following Trump’s Election

Individual investors are returning to the markets according to the November American Association of Individual Investors survey.

The monthly AAII survey seeks to gauge the temperament of America’s private individual investors, who Wall Street might overlook and is arguably a more accurate reflection of ordinary Americans’ investment preferences than Wall Street data. The survey has been conducted monthly since November 1987.

Private Investors Buy Stocks Following Trump’s Election 

The November survey reveals that individual investors have reduced their cash holdings, on a percentage basis, to the smallest amount since the spring of 2015. Fixed income allocations have also declined. Investors are selling bonds and reducing cash allocations as they devote a larger portion of their...