INVESTMENT Introduction

Presentation By Ashish siddiqui, Assistant professor, Ssb vadodara.

What is investment?????
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. Investment is related to saving or deferring consumption.

Investment in terms of Finance

In finance, investment refers to the purchasing of securities or other financial assets from the capital market. It also means buying money market or real properties with high market liquidity. Some examples are gold, silver, real properties, and precious items.
Financial investments are in stocks, bonds, and other types of security investments. Indirect financial investments can also be done with the help of mediators or third parties, such as pension funds, mutual funds, commercial banks, and insurance companies.

Investment v/s gambling v/s speculation

Gambling???? putting money into something with an expectation of gain without thorough analysis, without security of principal, and without security of return is gambling. Speculation??????? Putting money into something with an expectation of gain with thorough analysis, without security of principal, and without security of return is speculation

So what is finance investment??

putting money into something with the expectation of gain, that upon thorough analysis, has a high degree of security for the principal amount, as well as security of return, within an expected period of time