An investor profile or style defines an individual's preferences in investment decisions, for example:

• Short term trading or long term holding (buy and hold)
• Risk averse or risk tolerant / seeker
• All classes of assets or just one (stocks for example)
• Value or growth stocks, big cap or small cap stocks, defensive or cyclical stocks...
• Use or not of derivatives
• Home turf or international diversification
• Hands on, or via investment funds
• and so on.

See also

• Value investing
• Index investing
• Growth investing
• Socially responsible investing
• Ethical investing
• Appreciation
• Capital accumulation
• Financial economics
• Investor relations
• Return on investment
• Saving
• Speculation
• Stock investor

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