METHOD OF COMBINING DEMOGRAPHY, MONETARY POLICY METRICS, AND FISCAL POLICY METRICS FOR SECURITY SELECTION, WEIGHTING AND ASSET ALLOCATION
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- receiving a plurality of metrics;
combining said plurality of non-price metrics to obtain combined metric data;
using said combined metric data to at least one of;
select or weight constituents of an index based on said combined data;
select or weight a portfolio of financial objects based on said combined data;
orallocate assets based on said combined data.
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Abstract
A system, method and computer program product may combine metrics, and may use metrics to select or weight an index, select or weight a portfolio of financial objects, or be used to perform asset allocation. Financial and non-financial metrics may be used. Metrics based on accounting data, or other non-price metrics such as, e.g., demography, monetary policy metrics, and/or fiscal policy metrics, may be used. A combination of metrics may be used. Indexes may be built with combinations of metrics other than market capitalization weighting, price weighting or equal weighting. Once built, an index may be used as a basis to purchase securities for a portfolio. Specifically excluded are widely-used capitalization-weighted and price-weighted indexes, in which price of a security contributes in a substantial way to calculation of weight of that security in the index or the portfolio, and equal weighting weighted indexes. Indexes may be constructed to minimize volatility.
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18 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving a plurality of metrics; combining said plurality of non-price metrics to obtain combined metric data; using said combined metric data to at least one of; select or weight constituents of an index based on said combined data; select or weight a portfolio of financial objects based on said combined data;
orallocate assets based on said combined data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 14)
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9. A method of constructing a low volatility index comprising:
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selecting a geographic subset of a plurality of securities selected from a universe of securities wherein said geographic subset comprises selecting at least one security having a lowest beta from a plurality of securities ranked in order of beta from securities of each geography of said universe; weighting said geographic subset of securities using a low volatility factor, comprising; weighting by computing a multiplicative product of a weight of the given geography'"'"'s security and said low volatility factor, and reweighting or normalizing said weights of said geographic subset of said plurality of securities to make the geographic subset of securities at least one of;
country or region neutral, relative to the weights of said starting universe to form a geographic portfolio (GP) strategy;selecting a sector subset of a plurality of securities selected from said universe of securities wherein said sector subset comprises selecting at least one security having a lowest beta from a plurality of securities ranked in order of beta from each sector of said universe securities; weighting said sector subset of securities using a low volatility, comprising; weighting by computing a multiplicative product of an weight of the given sector security and said low volatility factor, and reweighting or normalizing said weight of said sector subset of securities to make the sector subset of securities sector neutral relative to the starting universe weight to form a sector portfolio (SP) strategy; and averaging said geographic portfolio (GP) strategy and said sector portfolio (SP) strategy to obtain final low volatility index weights. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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15. A method, executed on a data processing system, comprising:
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creating, by at least one processor, an non-price index based on non-price metrics comprising; selecting, by the at least one processor, a universe of financial objects, selecting, by the at least one processor, a subset of said financial objects of said universe based on at least one of said nonprice metrics, and weighting, by the at least one processor, said subset of said universe according to at least one of said nonprice metrics to obtain the nonprice index; and creating, by the at least one processor, a portfolio of financial objects using the nonprice index, including said subset of selected and weighted financial objects. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18)
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