(alsoinvestment company,investment firm,investment trust company)acompanythatearnsmoneybyinvestingin othercompanies:Therealestateinvestmenttrustownsa 75%interestin aresidentialdevelopmentin Chicago.(Definition ofinvestment trustfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofinvestment trust
investment trustIn 2007 the company converted to a real estateinvestmenttrust.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Investmenttrustshares are traded on stock exchanges, like those of other public companies.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This avoids the double taxation which would otherwise arise when shareholders sell their shares in theinvestmenttrustand are taxed on their gains.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is also one of the 10 largestinvestmenttrustcompanies in the world.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The share price does not always reflect the underlying value of the share portfolio held by theinvestmenttrust.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theinvestmenttrustoften has no employees, only a board of directors comprising only non-executive directors.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The company received a $117 million investment in a real estateinvestmenttrustthat it controlled.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It became a real estateinvestmenttrustin 1987.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theinvestmenttrustsector, in particular split capital investment trusts, suffered somewhat from around 2000 to 2003 after which creation of a compensation scheme resolved some problems.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Throughout the 11 year tenure he witnessed the company evolve from a railroad land company, to a diversified development company and eventually become a real estateinvestmenttrust.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/investment-trust##
