From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Investor
Investor
Financial market • Mutual funds, hedge funds, and other funds,
participants ownership of which may or may not be publicly
traded (these funds typically pool money raised from
their owner-subscribers to invest in securities)
• Sovereign wealth funds
Also, investors might be classified according to their
styles. In this respect, an important distinctive investor
psychology trait is risk attitude.
Collective investment schemes
Investor protection
Credit unions · Insurance companies The term “investor protection” defines the entity of ef-
Investment banks · Pension funds forts and activities to observe, safeguard and enforce the
Prime brokers · Trusts rights and claims of a person in his role as an investor.
This includes advise and legal action. The assumption
Finance series
of a need of protection is based on the experience that
Financial market · Participants financial investors are usually structurally inferior to
Corporate finance · Personal finance providers of financial services and products due to lack of
Public finance · Banks and banking professional knowledge, information and/or experience.
Financial regulation
An investor is a party that makes an investment into one See also
or more categories of assets --- equity, debt securities, re- • Business oligarch
al estate, currency, commodity, derivatives such as put • Businessperson
and call options, etc. --- with the objective of making a • Captain of industry
profit. • Financier
• Media proprietor
Types of investors •
•
Robber baron (industrialist)
Venture capitalist
The following classes of investors are not mutually exclu- • Investment
sive: • Securities offering
• Individual investors (including trusts on behalf of • Private equity
individuals, and umbrella companies formed by two • Corporate finance
or more to pool investment funds) • Stock investor
• Collectors of art, antiques, and other things of value • Growth capital
• Angel investors (individuals and groups) • Crowd funding
• Sweat equity investor • Sweep account
• Venture capital funds, which serve as investment • Model audit
collectives on behalf of individuals, companies,
pension plans, insurance reserves, or other funds.
• Investment banks
• Businesses that make investments, either directly or
via a captive fund
• Investment trusts, including real estate investment
trusts
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