Ways of turning cash means into investments. Sources belonged to he investments in the objects of industrial and nonindustrial spheres, mostly come out in the initial form of cash means. Turning of these latest into the investments may be provided in different ways. The easiest way takes place in the case, when industrial subject manages and owns definite means, uses them for widening and improvement of production and also for creation of nonindustrial objects. In the resembling type savings of those persons, which start activities with own savings turn into investments.
Though, in other cases turning savings into investments is a difficult process. The fact is, that most part of the population has no opportunity to provide investments straight into the production, because for this they must have manners of enterprise administration, and of course, own definite minimal amount for this or those reasons. Part of the enterprise profit also does not turn into the investments.
Herewith, form one side, population and some enterprises own free cash sources, from another, many enterprises need additional means for their investment program realization. Transmission of sources is realized by the channels of financial market, where owners of cash means appear to be the distributors of investment capital, and those persons, who influx sources – consumers.
Basic channels for transmission of cash means from distributors to consumers. Depending on how transmission of cash means is realized from distributor to the consumers, we can point out two basic channels at the financial market. First is the market of banking credits. Banks accumulate temporarily free cash means of the juridical and physical persons. Of course, they pay definite percents at the influxed sources and later give credits to the borrowers (to those ones, who provide real investments) for high percent. Thus, process of money movement from the owner, to the borrower is realized with the help of a bank.
In many cases such way of transmission of the cash means answers to the interests of the cash owner. Though this latest takes too little percent from the bank, but thus he/she avoids the risk of not returning of money from the borrower. Except security, banking deposits are high liquidate, as the depositor can take own amount out and also investment of cash means is reachable even for the smallest depositors (owners of the savings).
Bank pays very little percent to the depositors comparing with those it takes from the borrowers, that’s why it is natural, that the distributor has a desire to invest capital exactly into the relation with these borrowers.
As to the capital consumers (borrowers), it is advantage for them to get in direct touch with distributors. The fact is that getting banking credit is often followed by great difficulties. For example, often the bank doesn’t lend credit in the term, which is needed by the borrower; the bank may not have total amount requested by the borrower, for realization of the large-scale projects and so on. All these lead us to the large-scaled realization of attracting free cash sources together with the banking credit by capital consumers in other way – by emission of securities.
Somehow this way answers the interests of distributor of investment resources and their consumers. Distributors of resources (owners of savings) often are able to invest their sources in relatively advantage conditions, then banking deposits are and for longer period of time. Quite simple procedure of placement of sources is realized in the way of selling and purchasing of securities. Also, if securities are characterized by quite high level of liquidity, then the investor can invest wasted sources by selling own securities if necessary.
From the point of investment resources consumers’ view emission of securities has priority relatively to the banking credits. Hey (capital consumers) are given opportunity to influx cash sources from a lot of distributors of capital and accumulate large amount of money. Also, sources may be influxed for long period of time, sometimes for indefinite terms, if the affair touches upon securities.
Thus, market of banking credits and market of securities in the modern conditions appear to be necessary rings for investment processes, basic areas, with the help of which savings are turned into investments and are used for development of the production.
As said above, depending at objects of capital investments they separate real, financial and intellectual investments (drought 5.7.). Under real investments they mean placement of sources (capital) into creation of real assets (as of material, so immaterial ones), which are in touch with the realization of operative activities of economical subjects, salvation of their social-economical problems. Under financial investments they mean placement of capital into different financial instruments, in the first place into the securities.
Financial investments either have speculative character, or are oriented towards long-termed investments. They recognize to be the form of financial investment placements of sources into shares and securities, also into the loan banking deposits.
Financial investment oriented towards long-termed placements of sources is related with strategic goals of participation in the management of the investor’s object, in which the capital is invested.
Fictive capital. Concepts of real and financial investments are in close touch with the ones of real and fictive capital. In the economical literature they usually mean securities under fictive capital. Real capital is placed into production and securities serve for the title of property, which represent this capital. Financial capital is “the capital which exists in the face of securities, bring profit to the owners. Different from real capital, which is placed into various fields of the industry, fictive one has no inner value and is not considered to be real wealth, that’s why it has no function in the process of capitalist further production.and, according to this, we want to pay attention to the following: for every separate owner securities (fictive capital) represent valuable, which brings to him absolutely real income. Though, from the point social capital securities don’t represent real prosperity. Growth or reduction of the value of functioning securities in the society may take place independently from real capital. According to this, securities appear to be a fictive capital.
Real capital of the society is grown at the expense of investments into the real assets, while fictive capital may be increased without financial investments, at the expense of course value of the securities emitted earlier. A significant example of the process of fictive capital growth is process of emission of the so-called produced securities. Here they don’s take into account real investments, but they give rights for purchasing securities already produced or emitted earlier. In this case financial investments are followed by the growth of real capital of the society.
Though, to our mind, this subject is not so easy, as it seems. The fact is that growth of the share course is realized not itself, but by the fact that the effectiveness of using real capital is growing. The growth of course value of the enterprise shares expresses the fact, that the market gives too high estimation of the given enterprise.
Herewith, we can make a conclusion, that fictive capital is not a real wealth; it provides marketing estimation of real capital of the society in every given period of time. Imagine that we have two enterprises with absolutely identical real assets, though one enterprise uses these assets better and works more effectively. It is evident, that course value of the shares of this enterprise is higher, then those of other ones. That’s why fictive capital is being grown not itself, but expresses the position of real capital. Size of fictive capital is nothing but the marketing value of the real capital, the title of which is fictive capital considered to be.
Herewith it is difficult to agree with, that “fictive capital acts no function in the process of capital further production”. Securities (a fictive capital) play important role in the process of further production while turning of the savings into investments. A fictive capital (securities) makes income for its owners. Exactly the desire of making profit makes the owners of the savings to invest sources into securities. Amounts gathered by the issuerare used for creation and purchasing of the real assets, accordingly the growth of the volume of production takes place.
Movement of financial investments reminds us the movement of loan capital. As K. Marx showed us, in the process of movement of loan capital one and the same capital amount appears in the degree of capital-owner and capital-function. Income of the functional capitalist is divided into two parts – into the loan percent and the income of the clerk. Under the conditions of weak development of the joint-stock company free capital was put into the production in the form of loan capital. Real investments in the production are realized at the expense of own and loan capital from the functioning capitalists.
By realization of the joint-stock form of the enterprise the character of the investment process is essentially changed. In this case, they mean the joint-stock company may realize real investments at the expense of own sources (indivisible profit) or at the expense of banking credits. So, that they don’t apply for the financial investments.
Though, it is different in the case of joint-stock company. While foundation of the joint-stock company the founders are enter property, cash means, and intellectual property into the initial capital. Every deposit is estimated in the cash form and every founder purchases a definite package of shares for appropriate share, which is entered into the initial capital of the society. Amount of one and the same investments turns into real or financial investments. the process of real capital growth is followed by the growth of fictive capital. Herewith, in this case real investments can not be realized without share emission, i.e. without financial investments.
In the case of growing initial capital of the joint-stock company emission of new shares is taking place, then it is followed by real investments. Thus, financial investments are considered to be necessary attributes for the investment process. Real investments are impossible without financial ones. Real investments take completed face by realization of financial investments.
Widening of the production may be realized, also by the borrowed sources, which are influxed with the help of emission of the loan securities. Consequently, even in this case the process of real investments is realized with the help of financial investments.
We have different situation, when we apply for secondary market of the securities. If the investors purchase shares for already activated enterprise, then sources wasted for purchasing shares already are investments. But these sources get to the previous owner of the shares that’s why growth of the real capital of the enterprise doesn’t take place. It is same with the purchasing of securities of any kind at the secondary market. In this case (if the course of securities are not grown) the growth of fictive capital of the society doesn’t take place. Only the distribution of fictive capital among the members of society takes place. Thus, financial investments, which are realized in the forms of purchasing securities at the secondary market, are considered to be relatively independent form and it is not directly related with the process of real investments.
According to the said above, we can make the following conclusion: financial investment is the connecting ring of turning of the savings into real investments. With its help the savings get into the production; at the same time they can appear to be relatively independent form of the investments. Foreseeing the fact, that today joint-stock company is considered to be quite spread, organization-legislative form of the enterprise; we may come to conclusion, that financial investments and security market play very important role in the investment process on the way of turning savings into real investments.
Intellectual investment definition. Investment market is a difficult system consisted of various structural elements, among which there is a numerous connection. Scheme (in the drought 5.8.) represents a clear example about structure of the world investment market.
As seen from the matter, investment objects are divided into financial and material (real) assets. Each of them has quite diversified structure.
Financial assets concern financial and payment obligations of every kind, which are basically created by the economical agents while their work. This is cash money; deposits existed at the current accounts, short-termed loan obligations, for example, shares and other financial documentation, which prove the property of right at the capital or setting arrangement at the movement of financial resources.
Material assets are: movable and unmovable property, lend, buildings, precious metals, commodities of long-termed usage, material valuables or inventory having short-terms of produced service and so on.
Modern structure of investment, in the first place, expresses significant surplus of the financial assets at material ones (accordingly 57.7% and 42.3%), ant second, in the structure of financial assets itself securities, short-termed obligations and accounts having investment character occupy more and more bigger place.
Correlation of financial and material assets of the investment market may be expressed by the coefficient of financial interrelation. Idea of involving such coefficient belongs to R. Goldsmith, who is the author of the works written about the structure of national wealth and financial systems of developed countries. This scientist in the second part of 50s and beginning of 60s worked out the method of calculation of the coefficient of interrelation. He calculated this coefficient as conformity of total financial assets with the size of material assets received by deducing of the country net foreign assets. Net foreign assets show conformity of foreign debt of the given country and its residents with the one, which are owned by the foreign country and its residents towards this county. Citizens, companies and other juridical persons have right to have accounts abroad, to give credits to the foreign citizens and to have property abroad. Also, they are possible to get in debts themselves towards the foreign citizens. If the size of foreign property and financial wealth of the country resident surpluses debts towards the foreigners, then net foreign assets appear to be positive size and on the contrary.
According to the investment nature, which basic kinds of the investment market – financial and material ones, or the real investment markets in the modern conditions may be added by the market of intellectual investments. This latest functions in the way of licenses, engineering-consulting service, Now-how, scientific processing, sales and purchasing of projects and others.
As in the marketing economics, so at the transmitting stage, alternative variants of using resources, investment resources among them. The principle of inter changing touch upon the realized investments as in the material forms, so in the human capital. It is well known that under the modern conditions investment in the human capital is very important and gives a large profit. This is stated in many economical works.K. Sax and F. Lauren point to the investments into the human capital. They notice that investments into the human capital have a great importance for marketing economics.Nowadays a theory of intellectual capital makes foundation to the realization of investments into the human capital.The authors of this theory concern, that intellectual capital is a difficult category. It is wider than the human capital, as in it information is considered to be the independent industrial resource.Investments into the intellectual capital differ from the ones realized into the human capital. It also concerns the elements of structural capital, which means investments realized into the furniture, computers, programs, patents and trade marks. On the basis of intellectual capital theory a concept of social partnership was formed. This conception leans upon the investments placed into the social capital. Social capital theory means relations of mutual help and development of trust relation in the separate groups or readiness of participation in the unions. More educated and qualified workers have more possibilities for formation of social capital and economical macro-system. On the basis of investments realized subjective leaders of attractive investment surrounding is formed in the social capital, that influence significantly upon the development of intellectual investment market.
Intellectual investment market has the following peculiarities:
First, intellectual investment market is the consisting part of service market. It provides realization of specific commodity by straight contracts between producers and consumers. Herewith, trade mediating is not the exception. Though there is a principle distinction between mediating and consuming commodities at the market of intellectual investments. Analyzes of different researches show, that in the conditions of transitional period growth of the share of mediator structures in the section of consuming commodity of massive request take place in Georgia. The mediator is not requested to have a special knowledge, only initial information is enough. Of course, mediating at the market of intellectual investments requires high qualification level of the firms’ specialists. The mediators themselves, which unite “producer-consumers”, are not many. Herewith, mediator service at the market of intellectual investments is different form analogue service of the market of massive request commodities in the equal conditions by quality and effectiveness (at the expense of reducing expenses of the interested sides).
Second, the market of intellectual investment influences greatly upon capital movement and the market of labor forces.
Third, intellectual investments are protected by the state from the foreign competition, also by export and import of final result of using intellectual investments. Functioning of the market of intellectual investments cannot exist without protection of rights at the objects of intellectual property.
Fourth, for entering international market by inner market organizations and intellectual investments additional are not needed.
Fifth, formation of market values is specific at the results of using intellectual investments.
Values of intellectual investment products have not direct connection with the work spent on it. The value of intellectual investment product is defined by what it gives by using in the production process. Herewith, value of intellectual investment process is defined as expression of effect received by this product usage by money.
Market value at the intellectual investment product is formed as agreement one, by using two prices (of seller and purchaser). The purchaser may apply for the fact that a profit received from using intellectual investment product, minimally, is to compensate the expenses made by the seller for selling this product and also expanses of the buyer for its realization. The seller doesn’t often sell the intellectual investment product, but transmits only the right for its using. Thus, agreement value on this production is close to the buyers’ one in practice.
Realization of intellectual investments at the market may be provided in the following forms:
- by transmitting rights for using licenses, Now-How, commodity sighs and so on;
- by selling-transmission of Now-How, technological experiences and so on. Agreements on such acts of sell and purchase from license agreements are different by the fact, that the owner of Now-How doesn’t refuse its selling, but doesn’t agree with its patenting;
- by providing engineering services;
- by transmission of technologies, in the way investment partnership, within the bounds of which takes place not only sell and purchase, but in other ways of its distribution consultations, qualifying specialists, transmission of droughts and technological exchanges.
Engineering is one of the basic forms of realization are the market of intellectual investments. It means providing different engineering-consulting service on the commercial basis. They divide engineering service into two groups: 1) service related with preparing production process; 2) service related with provision of normal continuing of the process of production and its realization. To the first group belong: a) pre-projecting service (social-economical researches; topographic processing and planning of location; researching grounds; searching for the minerals; technical-economical statement of project and so on); b) projecting service (preparing general plan and recommendations; estimation of expenses made on its exploitation beforehand; preparing technical specialists and so on); c) further service of he project (preparing contracting documentation; organization of auction; estimation of suggestions; making contracts; managing building process; making and granting certificates about finishing work, making technical conclusion about building and so on); d) special service (researching about utilization, various juridical procedures and so on). To the second group of engineering service belong: service related with the managing and organization of the production process, service related with the examination of the object; consultations in the financial questions; service related with the production realization (researching the conjuncture of the market, advertisement organization), service related with the involving the system of informational provision and so on. Engineering consultations, in the conditions of deficit of high-qualified personnel, can provide intellectually the investment process, help firms to rise effectiveness, fasten circulation of the investment resources.
Portfolio investment market is the consisting part of the financial investment market. By forming society of share-holders and with the help of financial institutional investors, their activity at the financial investment market support significantly accumulation of independent cash sources in the country, also attracting of foreign investors, fastened circulation of financial investments, effective insurance for financial-investment risks and so on.
For clearing investment motivations up and defining levers is state influence we thing advisable discussion of peculiarities of the investment circulation in the process of further production of material (basic and turnover) and financial capitals.
Investment circulation in the process of investment activity is realized in the following basic directions:
investments in the material assets (production of basic and turnover capital); investments in financial assets; investments in the intellectual valuables.
Let’s discuss investment circulation in the process of further production of the material assets (basic and turnover capitals). Its every element may be divided into movable and immovable properties. Furniture, mechanisms, turnover capital belongs to the elements of movable physical capital and elements of passive part of basic capital (buildings, equipment, industrial infrastructure) – to the unmovable one.
Further production of the movable physical capital is realized in the industry, and of unmovable ones – in the building. Investment activity may be realized in the way of showing of unmovable property, furniture and other elements of physical capital at the market, or in the case of absence of needed commodity, in the way of their production (building).
Investment activity may be realized at the expense of different sources: own, borrowed, attracted sources for investments, budgetary assignations. Structure of sources depends at organization legislative forms of active and newly formed enterprise. Investments may be displayed as in the cash, material forms so in the face of property rights and intellectual potential. Foreseeing said above, investment circulation in the further production of a physical capital might be represented in the following way:
Economical essence of the given chain of transformation exists in the following: investments in different for (cash, productive, commodity) are placed into the objects of investment requests for industrial activity. After this a process of transformation of investments into industrial factors takes place. Thus materialization of investments takes place, which appears in the face of rising value of investor’s capital property.
Exactly the new transformation of capital value finishes investment circulation in the Soviet economical literature. They departed artificially stage of formation of new capital value and stage of their functioning, which defines real level of income of profitableness of these valuables, and finally the period of self-compensation of investments.
As main goal of investment are making profit, investment circulation definitely concerns a period of exploitation of purchased capital valuables till the moment of financial recourses, by which investments in the capital production are compensated.
In this case, production, which is produced in the form of investment commodity, is realized at the markets of different investments (real estate, furniture, materials and other markets).
What is the distinction between investments and investment commodity, as they coincide with each other in the material form and ability of making income? To our mind, basic distinction is in the “universality” degree of investments and investment commodity. Any investment commodity for realization at the markets in the future becomes a factor of production in concrete material or cash forms. Material transformation of a capital doesn’t mean further production, it may be even threadbare – morally and physically, and investments, as they are movable form of cash capital – may make endless and permanent profit. To our mind, this makes investments different from the investment commodity.
Investments into the financial assets take place in relation with their profitableness norms. Income, according to the different financial assets, is divided into dividends (kind of industrial income) and percents. This is defined by what capital they represent – industrial or loan.
A process of investments into the financial assets may be represented in the following way:
First, intellectual investment market is the consisting part of service market. It provides realization of specific commodity by straight contracts between producers and consumers. Herewith, trade mediating is not the exception. Though there is a principle distinction between mediating and consuming commodities at the market of intellectual investments. Analyzes of different researches show, that in the conditions of transitional period growth of the share of mediator structures in the section of consuming commodity of massive request take place in Georgia. The mediator is not requested to have a special knowledge, only initial information is enough. Of course, mediating at the market of intellectual investments requires high qualification level of the firms’ specialists. The mediators themselves, which unite “producer-consumers”, are not many. Herewith, mediator service at the market of intellectual investments is different form analogue service of the market of massive request commodities in the equal conditions by quality and effectiveness (at the expense of reducing expenses of the interested sides).
Second, the market of intellectual investment influences greatly upon capital movement and the market of labor forces.
Third, intellectual investments are protected by the state from the foreign competition, also by export and import of final result of using intellectual investments. Functioning of the market of intellectual investments cannot exist without protection of rights at the objects of intellectual property.
Fourth, for entering international market by inner market organizations and intellectual investments additional are not needed.
Fifth, formation of market values is specific at the results of using intellectual investments.
Values of intellectual investment products have not direct connection with the work spent on it. The value of intellectual investment product is defined by what it gives by using in the production process. Herewith, value of intellectual investment process is defined as expression of effect received by this product usage by money.
Market value at the intellectual investment product is formed as agreement one, by using two prices (of seller and purchaser). The purchaser may apply for the fact that a profit received from using intellectual investment product, minimally, is to compensate the expenses made by the seller for selling this product and also expanses of the buyer for its realization. The seller doesn’t often sell the intellectual investment product, but transmits only the right for its using. Thus, agreement value on this production is close to the buyers’ one in practice.
Realization of intellectual investments at the market may be provided in the following forms:
- by transmitting rights for using licenses, Now-How, commodity sighs and so on;
- by selling-transmission of Now-How, technological experiences and so on. Agreements on such acts of sell and purchase from license agreements are different by the fact, that the owner of Now-How doesn’t refuse its selling, but doesn’t agree with its patenting;
- by providing engineering services;
- by transmission of technologies, in the way investment partnership, within the bounds of which takes place not only sell and purchase, but in other ways of its distribution consultations, qualifying specialists, transmission of droughts and technological exchanges.
Engineering is one of the basic forms of realization are the market of intellectual investments. It means providing different engineering-consulting service on the commercial basis. They divide engineering service into two groups: 1) service related with preparing production process; 2) service related with provision of normal continuing of the process of production and its realization. To the first group belong: a) pre-projecting service (social-economical researches; topographic processing and planning of location; researching grounds; searching for the minerals; technical-economical statement of project and so on); b) projecting service (preparing general plan and recommendations; estimation of expenses made on its exploitation beforehand; preparing technical specialists and so on); c) further service of he project (preparing contracting documentation; organization of auction; estimation of suggestions; making contracts; managing building process; making and granting certificates about finishing work, making technical conclusion about building and so on); d) special service (researching about utilization, various juridical procedures and so on). To the second group of engineering service belong: service related with the managing and organization of the production process, service related with the examination of the object; consultations in the financial questions; service related with the production realization (researching the conjuncture of the market, advertisement organization), service related with the involving the system of informational provision and so on. Engineering consultations, in the conditions of deficit of high-qualified personnel, can provide intellectually the investment process, help firms to rise effectiveness, fasten circulation of the investment resources.
Portfolio investment market is the consisting part of the financial investment market. By forming society of share-holders and with the help of financial institutional investors, their activity at the financial investment market support significantly accumulation of independent cash sources in the country, also attracting of foreign investors, fastened circulation of financial investments, effective insurance for financial-investment risks and so on.
For clearing investment motivations up and defining levers is state influence we thing advisable discussion of peculiarities of the investment circulation in the process of further production of material (basic and turnover) and financial capitals.
Investment circulation in the process of investment activity is realized in the following basic directions:
1. investments in the material assets (production of basic and turnover capital);
2. investments in financial assets;
3. investments in the intellectual valuables.
Let’s discuss investment circulation in the process of further production of the material assets (basic and turnover capitals). Its every element may be divided into movable and immovable properties. Furniture, mechanisms, turnover capital belongs to the elements of movable physical capital and elements of passive part of basic capital (buildings, equipment, industrial infrastructure) – to the unmovable one.
Further production of the movable physical capital is realized in the industry, and of unmovable ones – in the building. Investment activity may be realized in the way of showing of unmovable property, furniture and other elements of physical capital at the market, or in the case of absence of needed commodity, in the way of their production (building).
Investment activity may be realized at the expense of different sources: own, borrowed, attracted sources for investments, budgetary assignations. Structure of sources depends at organization legislative forms of active and newly formed enterprise. Investments may be displayed as in the cash, material forms so in the face of property rights and intellectual potential. Foreseeing said above, investment circulation in the further production of a physical capital might be represented in the following way:
Thus, whole system of investment market forms total investment-market space. In this space a market of financial investments is filled by real and intellectual investment market.
Lamara Qoqiauri
Real Member of Georgian Academy of Economic Sciences
and New-York Academy of Science;
Doctor of Economics; Professor
Thus, whole system of investment market forms total investment-market space. In this space a market of financial investments is filled by real and intellectual investment market.
Lamara Qoqiauri
Real Member of Georgian Academy of Economic Sciences
and New-York Academy of Science;
Doctor of Economics; Professor
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