Return expectations differ between private vs professional investors

Private investors expect to achieve significantly higher returns compared to professional investors. The ‘expectation gap’ worldwide is currently 174 percent in the long term. This is 53 percentage points more than in 2020.

This was shown in research by Natixis Investment Managers among 8,550 individual investors. A large proportion of the investors surveyed, all with more than USD 100,000 in investable assets, achieved double-digit returns in 2020. The majority of them are also very positive about 2021.