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
- Calculating Return on Investment
- Return on Investment is one of several profitability ratios, one of the four basic classes of financial ratios—the others being liquidity ratios, activity ratios and debt ratios. This, the Return on Investment, often called a company's return on total assets, measures the overall profit made on an investment expressed as...
- Articles 2007-06-26
- GSC Investment Corp. F1Q09 (Qtr End 05/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript
- Earnings Call ExcerptGSC Investment Corp GNV F1Q09 Earnings Call July 15, 2008 10:00 am ET Executives Richard T. Allorto - Chief Financial Officer Thomas V. Inglesby - Chief Executive Officer Analysts Greg Mason - Stifel Nicolaus Presentation Operator Welcome to the GSC...
- Earnings calls 2008-07-15
- Green Shoots Hint at Recovery of Renewable Energy Investment
- Investment in the global renewable energy industry slowed considerably in 2008 and went into a freefall in the first quarter of 2009. But a recent study by New Energy Finance reveals a few green shoots of recovery have begun to appear. The 2009 Global Trends in Sustainable...
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Kuwaiti investment bank in default
- Global Investment House, the biggest investment bank in Kuwait, said Thursday it had defaulted on most of its debt. It was the first of several expected casualties among Kuwaiti financial companies because of the global credit crunch, just months after the government rescued one of the country's biggest banks. The news is...
- News items 2009-08-07
- 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
- Investment trust best buys: What Investment asks three investment trust specialists to recommend their favourite investment trust shates fir a cautious, a balanced and an aggressive investment
- What Investment asks three investment trust specialists to recommend their favourite investment trust shares for a cautious, a balanced and an aggressive investment CAUTIOUS OPTION Daniel Lockyer, investment trust analyst at iimia, points more cautious investors to a broadly based absolute return portfolio. The shares of Midas Income...
- Research articles 2006-06-01
- Agreement With CheckFree Investment Services
- The article states about the banking services know as check free investment service. Thomson Financial Announces Agreement With CheckFree Investment Services. To Integrate Separate Account Data Into Enhanced Thomson ONE Advisor Framework . Thomson Financial, an operating unit of The Thomson Corporation (TSX: TOC, NYSE: TOC), and...
- White papers 2003-08-26
- 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
- How Foreign Investment Benefits the US
- If you were scorched reading the recent flame wars over the desirability of foreign investment in US business landmarks Anheuser-Busch Companies and railroad CSX ignited by my BNET colleague Peter Galuszka, you understand why this subject is becoming a third rail in American economic policy debates. Now...
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- AT&T Investment Management Corporation Plans to Appoint J.P. Morgan Investment as Manager for the Private Equity Investment Program
- NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 23, 1997--AT&T Investment Management Corporation ATTIMCO, and J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc. today announced that ATTIMCO plans to appoint J.P. Morgan Investment as manager for its private equity investment program, subject to the completion of a definitive agreement. In addition, J.P. Morgan Investment will assume...
- Research articles 1997-10-23
- THREE FIRMS ROLL OUT INVESTMENT ADVICE.(multiple brief articles)
- Investment advice is gaining steam. Most recently, three firms announced investment advice ventures. In New York, Forstmann-Leff International and Investment Technologies formed an alliance to provide investment advice for 401k plan participant Investment advice is gaining steam. Most recently, three firms ...
- Research articles 1999-08-09
- Impact Of SEC's Proposal To Register Hedge Fund Investment Advisers On The UK And Europe
- Many investment advisers to hedge funds and other investment funds currently qualify for exemption from registration as an investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 Advisers Act. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission SEC recen Many investment advisers to hedge funds and other...
- Research articles 2004-10-26
- SEC's Proposal to Register Private Fund Investment Advisers.
- Many investment advisers to hedge funds, private equity funds and other investment funds currently qualify for exemption from the registration as an investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 Advisers Act. The Securities and Exch Many investment advisers to hedge funds, private equity...
- Research articles 2004-08-20
- Investment Trusts Trading at Discounts in U.K.: Hedge Funds Ready to Pounce?
- Market Folly submits: The Financial Times ran an interesting story on Monday entitled “Activist Minnows Eye Investment Trusts”. The article suggested that many UK investment trusts (closed-end investment funds that trade like equities) offer great value because they are on sale at substantial discounts of up to 50%...
- External links 2009-09-25
- Guaranteed Investment Funds
- Transamerica Life Canada today unveiled 20 innovative guaranteed investment solutions that offer Canadians the opportunity to grow and preserve their capital. imaxxGIF is a range of optimized guaranteed investment funds GIFs, asset allocation GIFs, and guaranteed investment portfolios GIPs to suit the financial planning needs of every investor. Transamerica has...
- White papers
- The Dynamics of U.S. GDP and Investment Sub-Components
- This paper deepens the knowledge on the dynamics of the Gross Domestic Product GDP and investment in the United States by including the sub-components of residential and non-residential investment into a multivariate analysis. Vector error correction methodology is used to estimate the parameters of the model and analyze the dynamics...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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