BOSTON -- By in large, investors are confident with the actionsthey have taken during the economic crisis with many choosing tostay the course, according to a new survey.

The 2008 Natixis Global Associates Investor survey, conductedNov. 6-11 by Richard Day Research, Inc., was based on 600interviews with investors 44 years and older with a minimum of$250,000 in investable assets. Sub-groups included 200 retirees and200 pre-retirees working with advisers and 200 self-directedindividuals.

Eighty-four percent of respondents said they were"overwhelmingly" confident with their investment plans. Among themost frequent actions cited were staying the course and not makingany changes (54%), continuing to invest as they did before thecrisis (29%) and reallocating some of their portfolio into othersimilar investments (27%). Few cited cashing out (15%), the datashowed.