1. Direct investment by investors in foreign enterprises, and control the management and operation of enterprises;

2. Indirect investment through financial intermediaries or investment instruments;

3. The above two types of investment are mixed with other international economic activities to form a flexible investment form.

Different types of international investment are divided into:

1. According to the length of time, international investment can be divided into long-term investment and short-term investment.

2. According to the right of investment management, international investment can be divided into international direct investment and international indirect investment.

The difference between direct investment and indirect investment;

The basic distinguishing sign is whether investors can effectively control foreign enterprises as investment targets, that is, effectively control foreign enterprises.

The nature and process of international direct investment are more complicated than international indirect investment.

The nature and risk of investors' income are different.

According to the source and use of capital, international investment can be divided into public investment and private investment.

Finance refers to the issuance, circulation and withdrawal of money, the issuance and recovery of loans, the deposit and withdrawal, the exchange of foreign exchange and other economic activities. The essence of finance is value circulation, and there are many kinds of financial products, including banks, securities, insurance, trusts and so on. Finance involves a wide range of academic fields, including accounting, finance, investment, banking, securities, insurance, trust and so on.

Financial futures is a kind of futures trading, which refers to the trading of standardized futures contracts in a centralized trading market by open bidding. Futures contract is the object or subject matter of futures trading, which is uniformly formulated by the futures exchange and stipulates a standardized contract to deliver a certain quantity and quality of goods at a specific time and place.

The basic tools of financial futures contracts are various financial instruments (or financial variables), such as foreign exchange, bonds, stocks and price indexes. In other words, financial futures are futures trading based on financial instruments (or financial variables).