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{{Short description|Person who allocates capital with the expectation of a financial return}} {{Use American English|date=July 2024}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{For|the Swedish investment company|Investor AB}} {{More citations needed|date=March 2015}} {{Capitalism sidebar}} {{Financial market participants}} {{Finance sidebar}} An '''investor''' is a person who allocates [[financial capital]] with the expectation of a future [[Return on capital|return]] (profit) or to gain an advantage (interest).<ref name="Reasonable">{{cite journal |title=Reasonable Investor(s) |journal=Boston University Law Review |volume=95 |issue=461 |page=466 |first=Tom C.W. |last=Lin |date=2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite dictionary |title=Investor |dictionary=Cambridge English Dictionary |url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/investor |publisher=Cambridge University Press |access-date=November 29, 2019 }}</ref> Through this allocated capital the investor usually purchases some species of property.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Jonathan |last1=Fisher |first2=Jane |last2=Bewsey |first3=Malcolm |last3=Waters |first4=Elizabeth |last4=Ovey |date=2003 |title=The Law of Investor Protection |edition=2nd |location=London |publisher=Sweet & Maxwell }}</ref> Types of [[investment]]s include [[Stock|equity]], [[Bond (finance)|debt]], [[Security (finance)|securities]], [[real estate]], [[infrastructure]], [[currency]], [[commodity]], [[Exonumia|token]], derivatives such as put and call [[Option (finance)|options]], [[Futures contract|futures]], [[Forward contract|forwards]], etc. This definition makes no distinction between the investors in the [[Primary market|primary]] and [[secondary market]]s. That is, someone who provides a business with capital and someone who buys a stock are both investors. An investor who owns stock is a [[shareholder]].
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