leveraging vs investing

leveraging and investing both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
leveraging	Yes	No	No	No
investing	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, investing is a hypernym of leveraging; that is, investing is a word with a broader meaning than leveraging:

leveraging: investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)
investing: the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit

Other hypernyms of leveraging include investment.

leveraging (noun)	investing (noun)
investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)	the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit