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Respondents in descending order of submissions were from Japan, Taiwan, Sweden, Russia, Spain, Luxembourg, Philippines, Columbia, Viet Nam, Nigeria, with responses from 19 other nations. Washington DC, Pennsylvania, Florida, Colorado and Illinois came in at 2% each and no other state represented more than 1%.Ĭanada represented 17% of international respondents, 15% UK, 8% Germany, 7% China, 6% India and 3% France, Italy, Israel, and Singapore, 2% Brazil, Mexico and Australia. The top five survey taking states were 22% California, 20% New York, 19% Massachusetts, 7% Texas, and Connecticut. The self-identified gender mix of respondents this year were 74% Male, 24% Female (up from 18% last year and 9% the year prior), and 2% choosing Gender X. A majority of 54% believe inherent racism is a structural industry obstacle, down from 68%. Could it be because many of our respondents fear a tax hike those in our industry doing so extraordinarily well? As one stated about eliminating Carried Interest “I benefit from it - but it is wrong,” balanced by some believing that “Tax breaks for (the) wealthiest citizens must be revisited.”Ħ6% agree that sexual misconduct, harassment and gender bias remain a problem, down from 78% a year ago. His confidence rating was cut in half from with 56% last year to 27% today.

The honeymoon for President Biden is evidently over. Curiously, this confidence in self plummets to a 35% confidence rating in the US Economy and only 19% with a confident outlook of the international economy compared to 54% and 37% respectively expressing confidence last year.

#Semaphor googledocs full

Unsurprising, considering that 91% of you had full confidence in yourselves. It most certainly did not hurt your wallets as 77% earned more in 2021 than the prior year, and 65% expect to earn still more in 2022. Only a third of you think it will hurt in 2022. Many comments are truly delicious – how come none of you are as pithy and entertaining on my Zoom calls?ĬOVID proved not as troubling as expected with only 34% reporting it hurt your business while 54% of you predicted that it would in 2022. Click here for the survey results and a representative sampling of commentary on matters of race, carried interest, sexual harassment, breaking up Big Tech, COVID, and the Theranos/Holmes saga. It might just be true, given the stratospheric amounts of capital committed and invested accompanied by the continuing rising incomes of those taking our survey.Ĭommentary continued to explode – hundreds of your colleagues penned opinions – many thoughtful and some cringing to read. That was the first comment entered in the 14 th Annual Semaphore Confidence Survey. “Remember in March/April of 2020 we thought every fund portfolio would crash? The joke is on others not smart enough to be in our biz - not even a global pandemic can kill us.”