The international investment activities: systematic analysis of categorical apparatus

Abstract

The paper analyzes the economic nature of the investments, the basic approaches to studying of such a category as investment. The authors propose to improve the classification of investments as well as such categories, as reliable investors, the country of origin and the degree of unprofitability of branches. Such an approach can help to systematize their types sufficiently. The authors prove that the main aim of investment is to get income and create other forms of providing development and increase market value of the company as a result of the capital growth. Were consider the practical aspects of the international investment activities. Such measures are presented as foreign direct investments and portfolio investments to Ukraine. The situation of the international investment activities during the last five years are analyzed in this paper.