investment company

noun

1. a company that invests its funds in other companies and issues its own securities against these investments.

Word History and Origins

Origin of investment company¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

Meyer still got his $500,000 base salary in 2020, plus stock options worth nearly that and a $1 million bonus for securing a $40 million loan from a private investment company.

From ProPublica

Sean Branagan, Chairman of Scrappy Capital, a seed investment company, is wary of SPACs forming around esports properties.

From Washington Post

A well-connected political donor whose investment company and corporate executives over the past decade donated more than $1 million to Georgia’s top Republican officials.

From ProPublica

Continuum Health Partnership Conessione CHP is a Colorado-based oxygen supply company; Conessione is an investment company.

From The Daily Beast

Charles Goodyear was CEO-designate of Singaporean investment company Temasek Holdings.

From The Daily Beast

Beazley and the judge were wading through the puzzling provenance of an entity called the Siberian Investment Company.

From The Daily Beast

Lady de Rothschild is chief executive of E.L. Rothschild LLC, a private investment company.

From The Daily Beast

But he had received a circular from an investment company in Wall Street, offering ten per cent.

From Project Gutenberg

That scared folks, and the investment company sold cheap as dirt.

From Project Gutenberg

The Acme Investment Company, which will handle the properties, has bought for investment, and will hold for increased prices.

From Project Gutenberg

Australian Property and Investment Company, £5 paid; present value, £8, 15s.

From Project Gutenberg

I'm going to organize an investment company for country merchants.

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Related Words

• holding company
• investment firm
• investment house
• investment trust