REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- PT Manulife Aset Manajemen Indonesia (MAMI) predicted a better growth in investment in stock market in the second quarter of this year after slowdown in the first quarter.

"We are optimistic that investment would grow. We see relaxation in investment," Head of Research of PT MAMI Katarina Setiawan said here on Monday (4/5).

Katarina said there was slowdown in growth of investment in the stock market in the first quarter of this year on a number of factors.

The budgets for government agencies were approved only in February, that government projects could not yet fully implemented, he cited.