KIEV, Oct. 31 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko, addressing a group of institutional investors that manage up to $10 trillion in assets worldwide, said the country??™s investment climate had been steadily improving.

Members of Russell 20-20, a non-profit association of 20 large retirement plan sponsors and 20 major money managers, have been visiting Ukraine for the second time since Yushchenko, a pro-Western figure, had become the president.