Exchange trading of mutual funds or other portfolio basket products
First Claim
9. A financial instrument comprising shares of an actively managed exchange traded fund, wherein an entity who trades shares of the actively managed exchange traded fund:
- receives or determines a first portfolio of financial instruments; and
receives or determines a second portfolio of financial instruments comprising a supplemental hedging portfolio, wherein the supplemental hedging portfolio combined with the first portfolio of financial instruments results in a hedging portfolio with substantially the same sensitivities to the factors that affect the value of the actively managed exchange traded fund holdings as the actively managed exchange traded fund holdings, and wherein the hedging portfolio does not reveal the fund holdings;
wherein the specific securities in the actively managed exchange traded fund are unknown to the entity.
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Abstract
A system for determining a basket of financial instruments for hedging investment risk in actively managed exchange traded funds is described. The system uses a trusted computer system and includes a computer storage medium storing a computer program product. The product determines the basket of hedging instruments by extracting factor information from a portfolio of the actively managed exchange traded fund and determining factors that affect the price of the exchange traded fund. The program can select a portfolio of instruments with similar behavior with respect to the determined factors to produce a hedging portfolio that tracks the price of the exchange traded fund.
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9. A financial instrument comprising shares of an actively managed exchange traded fund, wherein an entity who trades shares of the actively managed exchange traded fund:
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receives or determines a first portfolio of financial instruments; and
receives or determines a second portfolio of financial instruments comprising a supplemental hedging portfolio, wherein the supplemental hedging portfolio combined with the first portfolio of financial instruments results in a hedging portfolio with substantially the same sensitivities to the factors that affect the value of the actively managed exchange traded fund holdings as the actively managed exchange traded fund holdings, and wherein the hedging portfolio does not reveal the fund holdings;
wherein the specific securities in the actively managed exchange traded fund are unknown to the entity. - View Dependent Claims (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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18-1. The financial instrument of claim 17, wherein the first portfolio of financial instruments is an in-kind redemption basket.
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21. A method of estimating a current value of shares of an actively managed exchange traded fund without revealing the holdings of the actively managed exchange traded fund, comprising:
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receiving or determining a first portfolio of financial instruments; and
receiving or determining a second portfolio of financial instruments comprising a supplemental hedging portfolio, wherein the second portfolio of financial instruments combined with the first portfolio of financial instruments results in a hedging portfolio with substantially the same sensitivities to factors that affect the value of the actively managed exchange traded fund holdings as the actively managed exchange traded fund holdings, and wherein the hedging portfolio does not reveal the fund holdings;
applying a current value of the holdings of the hedging portfolio to generate a current value of the hedging portfolio; and
using the current value of the hedging portfolio as the estimate of the current value of shares of the actively managed exchange traded fund;
wherein the specific securities in the actively managed exchange traded fund are unknown to an entity who uses the hedging portfolio to estimate the current value of shares of the actively managed exchange traded fund. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A method of hedging investment risk in an actively managed exchange traded fund, comprising:
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receiving or determining a first portfolio of financial instruments;
receiving or determining factor information about a set of securities consisting of the actively managed exchange traded fund holdings minus the first portfolio of financial instruments, wherein the factor information measures sensitivities of the set of securities to factors that affect the value of the fund holdings; and
receiving or determining a second portfolio of financial instruments comprising a supplemental hedging portfolio, wherein the second portfolio of financial instruments has substantially the same sensitivities to the factors that affect the value of the set of securities as the set of securities, and wherein the hedging portfolio does not reveal the set of securities;
wherein the specific securities in the set of securities consisting of the actively managed exchange traded fund holdings minus the first portfolio of financial instruments are unknown to an entity who uses the supplemental hedging portfolio as a basis for determining a hedge against an investment in one or more shares of the actively managed exchange traded fund. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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