摘要:Investment activity is an important component in the successful development of the company in many ways it achieves its objectives, in particular, to increase the company’s revenue, and therefore, the budget of the country and the population. Therefore, the creation of optimal conditions for investment activities is a major factor of economic growth. In this paper, the notion of investment, are diff erent defi nitions of the term, a classifi cation of investments by various characteristics, the characteristic of investment companies.