invest′ment com`pany

a company that invests its funds in other companies and issues its own securities against these investments. Also called invest′ment trust`.

[1930–35]

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Noun

investment company - a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies

investment firm, investment trust, fund

hedge fund, hedgefund - a flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $1 million); can use high-risk techniques (not allowed for mutual funds) such as short-selling and heavy leveraging

mutual fund company, open-end fund, open-end investment company, mutual fund - a regulated investment company with a pool of assets that regularly sells and redeems its shares

closed-end fund, closed-end investment company - a regulated investment company that issues a fixed number of shares which are listed on a stock market

face-amount certificate company - a regulated investment company that pays a stated amount to certificate holders on a stated maturity date

Real Estate Investment Trust, REIT - an investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate assets; shares can be bought and sold in the stock market

unit investment trust, unit trust - a regulated investment company consisting of professional managers who issue redeemable securities representing a portfolio of many different securities; "you can invest in a unit investment trust for as little as $1000"

nondepository financial institution - a financial institution that funds their investment activities from the sale of securities or insurance

fixed investment trust, nondiscretionary trust - an investment trust that can buy only those securities listed when the trust was organized

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Trent was seized upon by an Englishman who was representing the Bekwando Land and Mining Investment Company and, before he could regain Da Souza, a few rapid sentences had passed between the latter and his brother in Portuguese.

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Patrick Edwardson, manager, Scottish American Investment Company, said: "2007 should be positive for equities, but expect corporate profits growth to slow."

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Icelandic bank Islandsbanki hf said on Monday (30 January) that Sjova, Islandsbanki and Milestone have established an investment company called Fjarfestingarfalagia Mattur ehf.

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Today, it remains one of the main businesses of The Plastics Group, a private investment company. Borse is one example of why very few original names of blow molders remain from the 1950s and '60s.

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As Paul Roye, director of the SEC's Division of Investment Management, has said: "Since investment companies, like other corporations, are organized pursuant to state law rather than federal law, the Investment Company Act is not the only source of authority for the management power of investment company directors." In other words, Spitzer and other state Attorneys General are not interlopers or merely "pushy politicians," as they have been described by their adversaries, but are at the center of the regulatory system for the mutual funds industry.

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