... Investment Investment or investing is a term with several closely-related meanings in business management, finance and economics, related to saving or deferring consumption. An asset is usually purchased, or equivalently a deposit is made in a bank, in hopes of getting a future return or interest from it. The word originates in the Latin quot;vestisquot;, meaning garment, and refers to the act of putting things (money or other claims to resources) into others po...