Finance Overview
Capital
Investment
Cash flow
Credit
Debt
Funding
Hedging
Interest
Risk
Yield
Arbitrage
Types of Finance
Corporate finance
Personal finance
Public finance
Asset Types
Real Estate
Securities
Commodities
Futures
Financial Vehicles
Collective Investment Schemes
Trusts
See Also
Entrepreneur
Financial market
Insurance
Economy
Investment or investing[1] is a term with several closely-related meanings in business management, finance and economics, related to saving or deferring consumption. 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. Literally, the word means the "action of putting something in to somewhere else" (perhaps originally related to a person's garment or 'vestment').