INVESTMENT COMPANY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does investment company mean? 

• INVESTMENT COMPANY (noun)
  The noun INVESTMENT COMPANY has 1 sense:

1. a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies

  Familiarity information: INVESTMENT COMPANY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVESTMENT COMPANY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

fund; investment company; investment firm; investment trust

Hypernyms ("investment company" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "investment company"):

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; mutual fund company; open-end fund; open-end investment company (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)

fixed investment trust; nondiscretionary trust (an investment trust that can buy only those securities listed when the trust was organized)