Noun

investment (plural investments)

  1. A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use.
  2. A mixture of silica sand and plaster which, by surrounding a wax pattern, creates a negative mold of the form used for casting, among other metals, bronze.

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Investment is the commitment of money or capital to purchase financial instruments or other assets in order to gain profitable returns in the form of interest, income, or appreciation of the value of the instrument. It is related to saving or deferring consumption. Investment is involved in many areas of the economy, such as business management and finance no matter for households, firms, or governments. An investment involves the choice by an individual or an organization such as a pension fund, after some analysis or thought, to place or lend money in a vehicle, instrument or asset, such as property, commodity, stock, bond, financial derivatives (e.g. futures or options), or the foreign asset denominated in foreign currency, that has certain level of risk and provides the possibility of generating returns over a period of time.

Investment comes with the risk of the loss of the principal sum. The investment that has not been thoroughly analyzed can be highly risky with respect to the investment owner because the possibility of losing money is not within the owner's control. The difference between speculation and investment can be subtle. It depends on the investment owner's mind whether the purpose is for lending the resource to someone else for economic purpose or not.

In the case of investment, rather than store the good produced or its money equivalent, the investor chooses to use that good either to create a durable consumer or producer good, or to lend the original saved good to another in exchange for either interest or a share of the profits. In the first case, the individual creates durable consumer goods, hoping the services from the good will make his life better. In the second, the individual becomes an entrepreneur using the resource to produce goods and services for others in the hope of a profitable sale. The third case describes a lender, and the fourth describes an investor in a share of the business. In each case, the consumer obtains a durable asset or investment, and accounts for that asset by recording an equivalent liability. As time passes, and both prices and interest rates change, the value of the asset and liability also change.

An asset is usually purchased, or equivalently a deposit is made in a bank, in hopes of getting a future return or interest from it. The word originates in the Latin "vestis", meaning garment, and refers to the act of putting things (money or other claims to resources) into others' pockets.. The basic meaning of the term being an asset held to have some recurring or capital gains. It is an asset that is expected to give returns without any work on the asset per se. The term "investment" is used differently in economics and in finance. Economists refer to a real investment (such as a machine or a house), while financial economists refer to a financial asset, such as money that is put into a bank or the market, which may then be used to buy a real asset.

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Can i become an investment banker with an entrepreneurship major and computer science major?
Q. I am planning on attending University of Indiana and i am wondering if i could become an investment banker if i majored in Entrepreneurship and Computer science (double major)? Also, IU has a great group called Investment Banking Network. Does anyone know if i could get into this group without a finance major or possibly even a finance minor?
Asked by Mark - Tue Mar 9 17:07:02 2010 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I know several instances where people became investment bankers without taking finance courses./
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What percentage of my investment portfolio should be high risk investments?
Q. I'm 29. What percentage of my investment portfolio should be high risk investments? When do I begin to move these to more conservative investments?
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A. Personally, I wont go for high risk investment . It gives you high yield and on the other hand, mind you can lose your capital. I go for conservative that offers a better deal. Or you can use your excess funds in doing some home-based business. You not enjoy time freedom but earning big with little risk. I believe there are lots of it there.
Answered by sandra y - Wed Aug 15 09:30:23 2007

What is the best investment for a retired person apart from bank fixed deposits?
Q. I am a retired person. I have 8 to 9 lakhs to invest.I get regular income from my retirement plans. That is I do not need any monthly income from the spare money.No share market or mutual funds. Bank deposits are at low rates. I do not want to lock it for more than 2 years.Can any one suggest a best investment option.?
Asked by Laxmi - Wed Oct 21 00:41:00 2009 - - 6 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I can make a Investment plan** for you, bench marked against the prevailing FD rates. FD's are low risk investments, hence corresponding returns; You can take some calculated risks based on understanding a Quantified Risk estimate, hence rationally desire higher return expectations.
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  • The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball. They know that overstaying the festivities — that is, continuing to speculate in companies that have gigantic valuations relative to the cash they are likely to generate in the future will eventually bring on pumpkins and mice. But they nevertheless hate to miss a single minute of what is one helluva party. Therefore, the giddy participants all plan to leave just seconds before midnight. There's a problem, though: They are dancing in a room in which the clocks have no hands.
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