Figure of the day: 60%

of managers at industrial manufacturing companies in Russia are not holding out hope for positive changes in investment dynamics in 2016. These data are presented in a new Monitoring the Investment Activity at Large and Medium-Sized Industrial Enterprises, which was prepared by the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at the HSE ISSEK. The report uses the results of a pilot survey of more than 1,000 active investment and industrial organizations that HSE commissioned from ANO Statistics of Russia.

A further 20% expect further deterioration of investment activity next year.

In assessing the results of the year that is now ending, more than 40% of managers characterized the current state of the investment process below that of the previous year. Only 13% of survey participants reported an improvement in investment activity at industrial enterprises in 2015.

Source: HSE website