BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Investment
- the spending of money on stocks and other securities, or on assets such as plant and machinery
Wiktionary Definition for: Investment
- #A temporary donation of money to a cause in expectation of making a profit.
Additional Resources
- A Policy Framework for Investment: Investment Policy
- This paper addresses one of the policy areas covered in the Policy Framework for Investment within the context of the OECD Initiative on Investment for Development - investment policy.1 The purpose of this paper is to examine how investment policy contributes to an environment that is attractive to domestic and...
- White papers 2005-10-25
- The OECD Initiative on Investment for Development: A Policy Framework for Investment: Investment Policy
- This paper addresses one of the policy areas covered in the Policy Framework for Investment within the context of the OECD Initiative on Investment for Development - investment policy. The purpose of this paper is to examine how investment policy contributes to an environment that is attractive to domestic and...
- White papers 2005-07-05
- Tax exhaustion, Firm Investment, and Leasing: A Test Of The Q Model Of Investment
- This paper incorporates tax exhaustion into a "Q" model of investment to see whether its performance is improved. In addition, leased investment is fully incorporated into the model, in part because tax exhaustion creates incentives to lease investment products and because investment models explain decisions to use equipment, not the...
- White papers 1996-01-01
- Avoiding Investment Advice Hazards
- It has been widely observed that most participants of the participant-directed retirement accounts are not aware about the investment management procedures. As a result, plan sponsors and providers are increasing the investment services for plans and participants, including investment advice. The last few decades, have been witness to a debate...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Investment Payback Analysis
- Investment Payback is the length of time between an initial investment and the recovery of the investment from its annual cash flow. This template helps you with the financial feasibility of expanding your business, or buying a new business.
- Tools & templates 2007-09-01
- Investment Basics
- Making the right decision about investment is imperative towards securing a bright future. Several investment options are available. The need is to choose the right option after weighing the pros and cons of each option. The paper examines the different investment options and discusses the issues involved in each of...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- The Search for Investment Quality - A Survey of Investors, Consultants, and Managers
- This paper shows that Investment Quality will be a defining theme of the investment management industry over the next decade because investors will demand it. Plan sponsors, investment consultants, and individual advisors will continue to refine their search process to find better ways of identifying it. Investment managers will also...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Investment and Union Certification
- This paper estimates the impact of unionization on firms' investment behavior, using data on union certification elections. Employing both a standard q-model and an "investment surprises" technique, it is found that union certification significantly reduces investment. The paper also shows that a winning certification election has, on average, about the...
- White papers 1996-10-10
- Property Investment Funds - A Hook Without a Bait
- This paper highlights how best a property investment fund can help to achieve the economic objectives of improving the UK housing supply as well as the stated aim of providing "a savings investment vehicle that would provide a liquid market in property investment that is widely accessible by the private...
- White papers 2004-08-06
- Investment Function
- Investment operations are those business processes concerned with the commitment of University assets to earn revenue and the control and safeguard of these earning assets. The objective and time horizon of a fund will generally determine the appropriate investment program. The University attempts to pool assets wherever possible in order...
- White papers 2000-06-01
- The Role of Uncertainity in Investment: An Examination of Competing Investment Model Using Commercial Real Estate Data
- Neo-classical investment decision criteria suggest that only the systematic component of the total risk affect the rate of investment, as channeled through the built-asset price. Alternatively, option-base investment model suggests a direct role for total uncertainty in investment decision marketing. To sort out uncertainty role in the investment, they estimate...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Financial Pricing Models for Property-Casualty Insurance Products: Investment Yields
- The investment yield used in a financial pricing model greatly affects the indicated premium. The proper investment yield depends on the target return on capital. If the target return on capital compensates for both investment risk and insurance risk, the investment yield should be the pre-tax yield expected to be...
- White papers 2004-03-10
- What Can We Learn About the Sensitivity of Investment to Stock Prices With a Better Measure of Tobin's q?
- This paper examines the responsiveness of investment to q (i.e., the ratio of a firm's market value to the replacement cost of its assets) using data on a unique type of firm: Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). The paper finds that there is little evidence of a statistical link between...
- White papers 2003-07-15
- Business Investment: Recent Performance And Some Implications For Policy
- The pattern of investment in most OECD countries in the 1980s was characterised by relatively weak levels of business net investment as a fraction of output. These developments were reflected in flagging capital-output ratios. At the same time, it would appear that more investment would be beneficial for a number...
- White papers 2005-01-13
- Finding The Investment Sweet Spot
- The complicated relationship between investment and return for a location-based leisure facility (LBL) has been reduced to a simplistic formula that costs LBL owners profit and, sometimes, their businesses. There's a place called the "investment sweet spot," where one has spent not too much, and not too little, but just...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- The OECD Initiative On Investment For Development A Policy Framework For Investment: Trade Policy
- This paper focuses on one policy discipline - trade policy - to be included in a Policy Framework for Investment (PFI) under the OECD Initiative on Investment for Development. It is designed to serve as background documentation for the PFI. The PFI is intended to be an operational, practical guide...
- White papers 2006-05-25
- What's Next?: Strategic Views On Foreign Direct Investment
- Monitoring new and emerging reservoirs of foreign direct investment and identifying ways and means to strengthen the development impact of such investments is not an easy task. It may require investment promotion agencies to strengthen their policy advocacy role within their own governments, with a view to helping improve the...
- White papers 2006-07-17
- Finance, Investment, and Investment Performance: Evidence From the REIT Sector
- The paper examines financing, investment, and investment performance in the equity REIT sector over the 1981-1999 time period. Analysis reveals significant differences between the old-REIT (1981-1992) and new-REIT (1993-1999) eras. The sector experienced rapid growth in the new-REIT era, primarily from firm-level investment as opposed to new entry. Firm-level investment...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- ABC Of FDI
- Foreign Investment is generally classified into foreign direct investment and portfolio investment. In contrast to direct investment, portfolio investment includes funds such as fresh inflow of funds from foreign institutional investors and funds raised by domestic corporates through ADRs (American Depository Receipt)/GDRs (Global Depository Receipt). Simply defined, Foreign Direct Investment...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- Alpha Carry - A Closer Look at Active Investment Manager Fees
- Investment manager fees have preoccupied much of the investment industry's attention, especially during the last several months. Investment management fees, like investment returns, can be viewed in alpha and beta terms. Such an analysis produces a metric known as alpha carry, which measures an active manager's true cost and value....
- White papers 2004-03-01
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