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    INVESTMENT FIRM

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companiesplay

    Synonyms:

    fund; investment company; investment firm; investment trust

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

    Hypernyms ("investment firm" is a kind of...):

    nondepository financial institution (a financial institution that funds their investment activities from the sale of securities or insurance)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "investment firm"):

    hedge fund; hedgefund (a flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $1 million); can use high-risk techniques (not allowed for mutual funds) such as short-selling and heavy leveraging)

    mutual fund; mutual fund company; open-end fund; open-end investment company (a regulated investment company with a pool of assets that regularly sells and redeems its shares)

    closed-end fund; closed-end investment company (a regulated investment company that issues a fixed number of shares which are listed on a stock market)

    face-amount certificate company (a regulated investment company that pays a stated amount to certificate holders on a stated maturity date)

    Real Estate Investment Trust; REIT (an investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate assets; shares can be bought and sold in the stock market)

    unit investment trust; unit trust (a regulated investment company consisting of professional managers who issue redeemable securities representing a portfolio of many different securities)

    fixed investment trust; nondiscretionary trust (an investment trust that can buy only those securities listed when the trust was organized)

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