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What is an investment?

What is an investment? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of investing, or state of being invested.
  2. (finance) A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use or appreciation.
  3. That with which anyone is invested; a vestment.
  4. (military) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
  5. A mixture of silica sand and plaster which, by surrounding a wax pattern, creates a negative mold of the form used for casting, among other metals, bronze.
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The outcome of a game where there is no personal investment is usually of academic interest.
Now, this might appear to be a time to play things strictly by the book in order to protect your biggest lifetime investment.
See, with property investment, you can be an absolute moron and you can still make money.
This saves the society from wasteful investment and ensures efficient use of scarce resources.
It's a very large investment in terms of time moving the whole company to this.
Futures and options are derivatives because their value depends on the price of the underlying asset, be it a commodity, investment or index.

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