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Q: Did your company?? 1-year budgeted investment volume change over the course of the year?

40% 35% Greater than $250 million
Between $50 million and $250 million
35% 30% Between $10 million and $50 million
Between $1 million and $10 million
30% 25% Less than $1 million
25% No change

20%
20%

15%
15%
10% 10%

5% 5%

0% 0%
Decrease < No change > Increase Decrease < No change > Increase
2015 2014

Continuing a downward trend in the proportion of $250 million.?? Instead, we observe notable growth in the
companies increasing their 1-year investment budgets over the proportion of participants having increased 1-year investment
course of the year, only 51.2 percent of this year?? participants budgets by either ??etween $10 million and $50 million?? or
reported doing so, down from 60 percent in 2012. is year ??etween $50 million and $250 million.??
also saw the proportion of study participants who decreased
their 1-year investment budgets shrink, albeit by a smaller Finally, of those companies whose 1-year investment
amount. budgets decreased over the course of 2014, 80 percent saw
decreases of $10 million or less, while 6.7 percent decreased
Of those companies who increased their budgets, their budgets by ??etween $50 million and $250 million.??
comparatively fewer increased them by ??ess than $1 million,??
??etween $1 million and $10 million?? or ??reater than

Q: Did your company?? 3-year budgeted investment volume change over the course of the year?

35% 35% Greater than $250 million
30% 30% Between $50 million and $250 million
25% 25% Between $10 million and $50 million
20% 20% Between $1 million and $10 million
15% 15% Less than $1 million
10% 10% No change

5% 5%

0% 0%
Decrease < No change > Increase Decrease < No change > Increase
2015 2014

e percentage of participants whose companies adjusted 81 percent indicated increases of ??ess than $1 million?? or
their 3-year investment budgets roughly tracks the 1-year ??etween $1 million and $10 million.??
budget changes, albeit with a slightly smaller proportion
reporting no changes for the 3-year term and a slightly greater Of those participants who reported decreases in 3-year
percentage reporting having decreased their 3-year budget. investment budgets, 88.3 percent reported changes of less
Of the 51 percent who reported increases to their budgets, than $10 million and 11.8 percent reported decreases of
??etween $50 million and $250 million.??

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