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Matthias Knab, Opalesque:

SyndicateRoom, the online investment platform which allows individuals to invest alongside the professionals, today launches its study Rise of the Growth Hunters to support UK investors who are looking for faster growth in 2017.

The report analyses sentiment and expectations of over 1,000 retail investors alongside five years of company growth data from Beauhurst. It reveals that:

• Risk appetite is rising among UK investors, driven by low investment returns. 39% of individual investors said that they are more willing to take risks than they were a year ago, compared to 18% who said they would like to take fewer risks. Meanwhile, nearly 50% of retail investors in the UK consider themselves to be 'off-track’ in meeting their financial goals and around half of UK investors in bonds believe they will see zero return, or worse, over the next year.
• Early-stage companies are seen as a route to higher returns. Around two-thirds of investors see 'the prospect of higher returns’ as a big incentive to move into investing in early-stage equities. This is matched by the facts on the ground, with investment in early-stage companies seeing a rate of growth in the past five years that is more than six times faster than that of the FTSE all-share index.
• One in thirty early-stage businesses is likely to close next year. Of nearly 600 early-stage businesses analysed from 2011, with an average valuation ......................

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