investment
An investment is an asset or property acquired to generate income or gain appreciation. Appreciation is the increase in the value of an asset over time. It requires the outlay of a resource today, like time, effort, and money, for a greater payoff in the future or for generating a profit.
An investment involves using capital in the present to increase an asset’s value over time.
Investments may include bonds, stocks, real estate, or alternative investments.
Investments can be diversified to reduce risk, though this may reduce the amount of earning potential.
In business contexts, investments are financial; however, consider how some people spend time to make higher incomes in the future (i.e. invest in a college education).
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PASON SYSTEMS (Toronto symbol PSI; www.pason.com) rents equipment for monitoring and managing oil and gas rigs. It also sells communication technology, such as its satellite system, which companies use to remotely collect data from their drilling operations. Pason serves oil and gas producers and drilling contractors throughout Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Argentina and Australia....
Focus on investment quality, and favour growth over momentum, and you’ll improve your chances of success with aggressive stock investing.
SHAWCOR LTD. (Toronto symbol SCL; www.shawcor.com) gets 90% of its revenue by making sealants and coatings that keep oil and gas pipelines from rusting. The remaining 10% comes from manufacturing industrial products, such as electrical wire and protective sheaths....
AEROPOSTALE INC., $9.90, symbol ARO on New York, moved up over 15% this week on news that Sycamore Partners has taken a nearly 8% stake in the company. Sycamore is a New York-based private equity firm that specializes in consumer and retail investments. It has over $1 billion in capital under management. Earlier this year, Sycamore paid $600 million for Hot Topic, a U.S. teen retailer with over 800 mall-based stores; in December 2012, it made an unsuccessful $555-million bid for Billabong, the Australian surf wear company; and in early 2012, it bought Talbots, a struggling women’s wear chain, for about $400 million....
Pat McKeough responds to many requests from members of his Inner Circle for specific advice on specific investments as well as questions on investment strategy and the economy. Every week, his comments and recommendations on the most intriguing questions of the past week go out to all Inner Circle members. And each week, we offer you one of the highlights from these Q&A sessions. While we reserve our buy-hold-sell advice for Inner Circle members, these excerpts provide a great deal of information and analysis on stocks we’ve covered for members of Pat’s Inner Circle....
PENN WEST PETROLEUM (Toronto symbol PWT; www.pennwest.com) is one of North America’s largest oil and gas producers. Its output is 63% oil and 37% gas....
Every Wednesday, we publish our “Investor Toolkit” series on TSI Network. Whether you’re a beginning or experienced investor, these weekly updates are designed to give you specific investment tips and stock market advice. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental piece of investment advice, and shows you how you can put it into practice right away....
Friends of mine who work as brokers sometimes say, “You must have an awful opinion of brokers, judging by the terrible things you say about us.” That’s a misconception. Brokers are human—some are people of high integrity and others aren’t. But I do have a low opinion of many of today’s investment products and services. The core of the problem is that the financial industry offers its salespeople incentives to give clients bad advice. A broker can sell his or her clients a wide variety of products and services that will bring the broker a wide range of fees and commissions, from high to low. As a general rule, the more income a broker can earn from selling a particular investment, the poorer the match between the investment and the interests of the client....
Simon Property Group, $151.71, symbol SPG on New York (Units outstanding: 310.3 million; Market cap: $47.1 billion; www.simon.com), is a major U.S. real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns, develops and manages malls, premium outlets and community/lifestyle centres. Simon owns or has interests in 325 retail properties in North America, Europe and Asia with over 241 million square feet of leasable area. The trust’s malls typically contain at least one department store as an anchor tenant or a combination of department and big box retailers with a variety of smaller stores connecting them. Additional stores are usually located along the perimeter of the parking area....