The biggest winner in confidence over the last year has been emerging market shares, where the ISI recorded a 22.7% increase in confidence from -5.75% in January 2016 to near 17% in January 2017.
Commodities, gold and Japanese equities saw large rises in sentiment of between 17% and 20.8% in the last 12 months, as did UK shares which were up 8.2% year on year.
UK property has lost the most ground with investors during 2016, with confidence falling from more than 50% in January last year to its current level of just 28.8%.
