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Hedging exchange traded mutual funds or other portfolio basket products

  • US 7,099,838 B1
  • Filed: 03/27/2000
  • Issued: 08/29/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of hedging investment risk in an actively managed exchange traded fund, comprising;

  • receiving or determining factor information about the actively managed exchange traded fund holdings, wherein one or more computers programmed with factor analysis software determine the factor information, which measures sensitivities of the fund holdings to factors that affect the value of the fund holdings, and the factor information does not reveal the fund holdings; and

    using one or more computers with the factor information as an input to select a portfolio of financial instruments to produce a hedging portfolio with substantially the same sensitivities to the factors that affect the value of the fund holdings,wherein the specific securities in the actively managed exchange traded fund arc unknown to an entity who uses the hedging portfolio to hedge against an investment in the actively managed exchange traded fund.

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