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Investment centre

An investment center is a responsibility center in management accounting whose manager controls revenues, costs, and capital investment, and is evaluated on return on investment rather than profit alone.

Investment chapters in free trade agreements

Investment chapters in free trade agreements give foreign investors protections such as fair and equitable treatment and protection from expropriation, often enforced through investor–state dispute settlement.

Investment Company Act of 1940

The Investment Company Act of 1940 is a United States federal law requiring investment companies, including mutual funds and ETFs, to register with the SEC and follow disclosure rules.

Investment fund

An investment fund, also known as a collective investment fund or pooled fund, combines many investors' money and invests it in securities or other assets under a professional manager.

Investment management

Investment management, also called funds management, is the professional management of investments to maximize returns per each client's risk preference, serving pension funds, endowments, and wealthy individuals.

Investment Management Corporation of Ontario

The Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO; Société ontarienne de gestion des placements) manages investments for Ontario public sector clients, overseeing $86 billion in assets as of 2024.

Investment policy statement

An investment policy statement (IPS) is a written document recording an investor's objectives, risk tolerance, asset-allocation targets, and review procedures, used by retirement plan fiduciaries, endowments, and individual investors.

Investment property

Investment property is real estate, land or a building, held to earn rental income or for capital appreciation rather than for the owner's own use.

Investment tax credit (United States)

The investment tax credit is a US federal tax credit under Section 48 of the Internal Revenue Code that subsidizes eligible clean energy property by a percentage of its cost.

Investment trust

An investment trust is a listed closed-end company that invests in shares, land, or other assets to spread risk; the form originated in Britain in 1868.

Investopedia

Investopedia is a free, advertising-supported financial education and media website founded in 1999 in Edmonton, Canada, offering a large financial dictionary, explainer articles, a stock market simulator, and paid courses.

Investor

An investor is a person or institution that commits capital to securities or other assets expecting a return over time, from dividends, interest, or capital appreciation rather than short-term price movements.

Investor AB

Investor AB is a Swedish listed investment holding company founded in 1916 by the Wallenberg family's Stockholms Enskilda Bank, holding major stakes in ABB, Atlas Copco, and Saab.

Investor protection

Investor protection is the body of laws, regulations, and institutions that shield people who buy securities, especially minority shareholders, from expropriation by insiders and controlling shareholders.

Investor relations

Investor relations (IR) is the corporate function managing communication between a listed company and its investors, integrating finance, communication, and securities-law compliance; General Electric created the first IR department in 1952.

Investor–state dispute settlement

Investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) is treaty-based arbitration letting foreign investors sue host states for compensation. Key facts: ICSID administers over 70% of known cases; UNCITRAL Working Group III reform since 2017; 33 public-health and 175 environment-related cases.

INVÍAS

INVÍAS (Instituto Nacional de Vías) is Colombia's national road institute, created in 1992 and attached to the Ministry of Transport. It builds and maintains the non-concessioned national road network.

Invicta (locomotive)

Invicta is an early British steam locomotive built in 1829 by Robert Stephenson and Company for the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, preserved today at the Whitstable Museum and Gallery.

Invicta Racing

Invicta Racing, formerly Virtuosi UK, Russian Time and UNI-Virtuosi, is a British FIA Formula 2 team that won back-to-back F2 Teams' and Drivers' titles in 2024 and 2025.

Invictus

Invictus is William Ernest Henley's 1875 Victorian poem, written in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, published untitled in 1888 and titled by Quiller-Couch in 1900; famous for "master of my fate" and its link to Nelson Mandela.

Invictus (film)

Invictus (2009) is Clint Eastwood's sports drama starring Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar, based on John Carlin's Playing the Enemy, about the 1995 Rugby World Cup; two Oscar nominations, 76% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Invictus Games

Invictus Games: biennial international adaptive sports competition for wounded, injured and sick service personnel and veterans, founded by Prince Harry in 2014; first held in London, latest edition Vancouver Whistler 2025, next Birmingham 2027.

Invictus Gaming (iG电子竞技俱乐部)

Invictus Gaming (iG电子竞技俱乐部), Chinese esports organization founded August 2011 in Shanghai by Wang Sicong; won The International 2012 in Dota 2 and the 2018 League of Legends World Championship, and competes in the LPL.

InVID-WeVerify

InVID-WeVerify is a free browser extension bundling video keyframe extraction, reverse image search, metadata reading, and forensic filters, created by AFP Medialab and first released in 2017.

Invideo AI

Invideo AI, styled invideo, is a web-based AI video creation platform by Invideo Inc that turns a text prompt or script into a finished video, refined by chat commands.

Invincible (2006 film)

Invincible (2006) is a Disney sports drama directed by Ericson Core, starring Mark Wahlberg as Vince Papale, the 30-year-old bartender who made the Philadelphia Eagles in a 1976 open tryout; notable for omitting his World Football League career.

Invincible (character)

Invincible is the superhero alias of Mark Grayson, a half-Viltrumite son of Omni-Man in Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker's Image Comics series (2003-2018, 144 issues), adapted as the Prime Video animated series starring Steven Yeun since 2021.

Invincible (comics)

Invincible (comics): Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley's creator-owned Image Comics superhero series (2003-2018, 144 issues) about Mark Grayson, son of Omni-Man; adapted as the Prime Video animated series.

Invincible (Michael Jackson album)

Invincible, Michael Jackson's tenth and final studio album (October 2001, Epic), 16 tracks including You Rock My World and Butterflies; recorded over four years with Rodney Jerkins, Teddy Riley, and Dr. Freeze, sold six million copies in three months amid the Sony promotion dispute.