• Short term trading (active management
  Active management
  Active management refers to a portfolio management strategy where the manager makes specific investments with the goal of outperforming an investment benchmark index...
  
  ) or long term holding (buy and hold
  Buy and hold
  Buy and hold is a long-term investment strategy based on the view that in the long run financial markets give a good rate of return despite periods of volatility or decline. This viewpoint also holds that short-term market timing, i.e...
  
  )
• Risk averse or risk tolerant / seeker
• All classes of assets or just one (stock
  Stock
  The capital stock of a business entity represents the original capital paid into or invested in the business by its founders. It serves as a security for the creditors of a business since it cannot be withdrawn to the detriment of the creditors...
  
  s for example)
• Value stock, growth stock
  Growth stock
  In finance, a growth stock is a stockof a company that generates substantial and sustainable positive cash flow and whose revenues and earnings are expected to increase at a faster rate than the average company within the same industry...
  
  s, quality stocks
  Quality investing
  Quality investing is an investment strategy based on clearly defined fundamental factors that seeks to identify companies with outstanding quality characteristics. The quality assessment is made based on soft and hard criteria...
  
  , defensive or cyclical stocks...
• Big cap or small cap (Market capitalization
  Market capitalization
  Market capitalization is a measurement of the value of the ownership interest that shareholders hold in a business enterprise. It is equal to the share price times the number of shares outstanding of a publicly traded company...
  
  ) stocks,
• Use or not of derivatives
  Derivative (finance)
  A derivative instrument is a contract between two parties that specifies conditions—in particular, dates and the resulting values of the underlying variables—under which payments, or payoffs, are to be made between the parties.Under U.S...
  
  
• Home turf or international diversification
• Hands on, or via investment funds

What determines an investor profile

• Objective personal or social traits such as age, gender, income, wealth, family, tax situation...
• Subjective attitudes, linked to the temper (emotions) and the beliefs (cognition) of the investor.
• Generally, the investor's financial return / risk objectives, assuming they are precisely set and fully rational.

See also

• Appreciation
  Appreciation
  In accounting, appreciation of an asset is an increase in its value. In this sense it is the reverse of depreciation, which measures the fall in value of assets over their normal life-time...
  
  
• Capital accumulation
  Capital accumulation
  The accumulation of capital refers to the gathering or amassing of objects of value; the increase in wealth through concentration; or the creation of wealth. Capital is money or a financial asset invested for the purpose of making more money...
  
  
• Ethical investing
• Financial economics
  Financial economics
  Financial Economics is the branch of economics concerned with "the allocation and deployment of economic resources, both spatially and across time, in an uncertain environment"....
  
  
• Global assets under management
  Global assets under management
  Global asset allocation or Global assets under management consists of pension funds, insurance companies and mutual funds. Other funds under management include private wealth and alternative assets such as hedge funds and private equity...
  
  
• Growth investing
  Growth investing
  Growth investing is a style of investment strategy. Those who follow this style, known as growth investors, invest in companies that exhibit signs of above-average growth, even if the share price appears expensive in terms of metrics such as price-to-earnings or price-to-book ratios...
  
  
• Index investing
• Investor relations
  Investor relations
  Investor Relations is a strategic management responsibility that integrates finance, communication, marketing and securities law compliance to enable the most effective two-way communication between a company, the financial community, and other constituencies, which ultimately contributes to a...
  
  
• Quality investing
  Quality investing
  Quality investing is an investment strategy based on clearly defined fundamental factors that seeks to identify companies with outstanding quality characteristics. The quality assessment is made based on soft and hard criteria...
  
  
• Return on investment
  Return on investment
  Return on investment is one way of considering profits in relation to capital invested. Return on assets , return on net assets , return on capital and return on invested capital are similar measures with variations on how “investment” is defined.Marketing not only influences net profits but also...
  
  
• Saving
  Saving (money)
  Saving is income not spent, or deferred consumption. Methods of saving include putting money aside in a bank or pension plan. Saving also includes reducing expenditures, such as recurring costs...
  
  
• Socially responsible investing
  Socially responsible investing
  Socially responsible investing , also known as sustainable, socially conscious, or ethical investing, describes an investment strategy which seeks to consider both financial return and social good....
  
  
• Speculation
  Speculation
  In finance, speculation is a financial action that does not promise safety of the initial investment along with the return on the principal sum...
  
  
• Stock investor
• Stock profile
• Styles of investment strategy
• Value investing
  Value investing
  Value investing is an investment paradigm that derives from the ideas on investment and speculation that Ben Graham and David Dodd began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928 and subsequently developed in their 1934 text Security Analysis...
  
  

External links

• perso.orange.fr, investor types