Investment (disambiguation)

Investment is time, energy, or matter spent in the hope of future benefits actualized within a specified date or time frame.

Investment may also refer to:

Economics

 * Investment (macroeconomics)
 * Fixed investment, investment in physical assets such as machinery, land, buildings, installations, vehicles, or technology
 * Inventory investment, the accumulation of unsold goods

Other uses

 * Investment (military), the military tactic of surrounding an enemy fort (or town) with armed forces to prevent entry or escape
 * Investment (film), a 2013 Marathi film
 * Investment casting, an industrial process based on and also called lost-wax casting, one of the oldest known metal-forming techniques
 * Cathexis, also known as investment, a psychoanalytic term describing an investment of libido