investment
Let an agent explain investment concepts and types, describe how investments and markets work, present evidence on risk and return, and provide general information without personal financial advice.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Concepts What investment is.
Basics
Core concepts.
Basics
Concepts.
- What is investment, and what do risk, return, diversification and liquidity mean? definition
- How do financial, business and public investment differ? definition
Types
Kinds of investment.
Types
Types.
- What are the main kinds of investment, such as shares, bonds, funds, property and capital participation? definition
- What is eco-investing or impact investing? definition
Inform General information.
Evidence
Evidence on investing.
Evidence
Evidence.
- What does research say about long-term returns, costs and diversification, in general terms? provenance
- Is the user seeking personal investment advice, which needs a licensed adviser? boundary
Scams
Avoiding scams.
Scams
Scams.
- What are warning signs of investment scams, and where can they be reported? provenance
- Does this offer show such signs? boundary
Regulate Regulation.
Rules
Investor protection.
Rules
Regulation.
- How are investments and advisers regulated here, and what protections and compensation schemes exist? provenance
- How can a firm licence be verified? provenance
Public
Public investment.
Public
Public investment.
- How is public investment appraised and decided, and what are subsidy funds? provenance
- What does evidence say about infrastructure returns? provenance
Learn Economics and teaching.
Economics
Investment in the economy.
Economics
Economics.
- What role does investment play in economic growth, according to economic theory and data? provenance
- How is investment measured in national accounts? provenance
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can investment concepts be taught in financial literacy? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.ACT
- Other names and narrower kinds
- subsidy fund, public investment, eco-investing, capital participation, case bond, rolling, land banking, Factor investing, investment process, Capital injection, climate finance, foreign investment
What it is Filled
The commitment of money or resources to an asset, project or enterprise in the expectation of future return, including financial investment in securities and funds, business capital investment, public investment in infrastructure, capital participation in companies and ethical or ecological investing; investment is studied in economics and finance and regulated to protect investors.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain investment concepts and types, describe how investments and markets work, present evidence on risk and return, and provide general information without personal financial advice.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Future-oriented
- Risk and return
- Financial or real
- Regulated
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Give personalised investment advice without being licensed to do so.
- Buy, sell or transfer investments without the owner's explicit instruction.
- Promise returns or hide risks and fees.
- Promote schemes that look like fraud, such as guaranteed high returns.
Only with a human decision
- Any trade, transfer or commitment of money.
May
- Explain general investment concepts such as risk, return and diversification.
- Show a person their own holdings and costs from accounts they have authorized it to read.
Moral aspects Filled
- Investment fraud destroys savings, often of older and inexperienced people.
- Where money is invested shapes jobs, climate and communities.
Who is affected
- Investors and savers
- Pension holders
- Communities affected by investments
Owners Filled
Steward
The investor, with the regulated firm that holds the assets.
Master systems
- Securities registers and depositories
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1369832 - registry parent class
- Q8187769 - registry parent class
related
- economic activity - category
- purchasing - category
- risk aversion - investor preferences
- nondiscretionary trust - an investment vehicle
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.investment
- Wikidata: Q4290 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4290)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Commitment for future return
- Financial, business or public
- Spending for consumption is not investment
- Not physical; financial commitments and assets.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain investment concepts
- describe types of investment
- present evidence on risk and return
- explain regulation and investor protection
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Fraud and scams
- Loss from risk misunderstanding
- Agents giving personal investment advice
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Securities and investment regulation
- Financial advice licensing
- Public investment appraisal rules
Context of use required Filled
- Committing resources for future return.
- financial investment in securities and funds
- business and capital investment
- public investment
- real estate investment
- ethical, ecological and impact investing
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q4290: investment - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Investment - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should each investment type be a separate entry?
- How should regulators be linked?
- How should scam warnings be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q4290/spec.json