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"Invest" redirects here. For other uses see Invest .
Investment or investing 1 is a term with several closely-related meanings in business management finance and economics related to saving or deferring consumption.
Investment is the choice by the individual to risk his savings with the hope of gain. 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 into others pockets. See Invest. 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.
