Hedging exchange traded mutual funds or other portfolio basket products
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1. A method of estimating an intra-day approximation of the net asset value (NAV) of actively managed exchange traded funds comprising the steps:
- grouping securities into groups of securities for which there is some basis to believe that their prices might move together; and
for each groupperforming a principal component analysis (PCA) over some percentage of variation (y %) to arrive at a subset of the principal components as the factors for the particular group using a computer;
estimating an intra-day approximation of NAV of the actively managed fund of a particular day by estimating factor sensitivities of the subset of factors in each of the groups for a particular actively managed fund using a computer, wherein the intra-day approximation of NAV of the actively managed fund does not reveal the assets of the actively managed fund portfolio to an investor who trades shares of the actively managed fund.
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Abstract
A system for pricing and/or determining a basket of financial instruments for hedging investment risk in actively managed 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 a basket of hedging instruments by applying statistical or economic based factor analysis to estimate the NAV or provide a hedging basket to track actual NAV of an actively managed traded fund.
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1. A method of estimating an intra-day approximation of the net asset value (NAV) of actively managed exchange traded funds comprising the steps:
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grouping securities into groups of securities for which there is some basis to believe that their prices might move together; and
for each groupperforming a principal component analysis (PCA) over some percentage of variation (y %) to arrive at a subset of the principal components as the factors for the particular group using a computer; estimating an intra-day approximation of NAV of the actively managed fund of a particular day by estimating factor sensitivities of the subset of factors in each of the groups for a particular actively managed fund using a computer, wherein the intra-day approximation of NAV of the actively managed fund does not reveal the assets of the actively managed fund portfolio to an investor who trades shares of the actively managed fund. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A computer readable medium storing a computer program product for estimating the net asset value (NAV) of actively managed exchange traded funds, which are traded intra-day comprising instructions, which are executed by a computer and cause the computer to:
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group securities into groups of securities for which there is some basis to believe that their prices might move together; and
for each groupperform a principal component analysis (PCA) over some percentage of variation (y %) to arrive at a subset of the principal components as the factors for the particular group; estimate the NAV of the actively managed fund on a particular day by estimating factor sensitivities of the subset of factors in each of the groups for a particular actively managed fund, wherein the factor sensitivities of the subset of factors in each of the groups for the particular actively managed fund do not reveal the assets of the actively managed fund portfolio to an investor who trades shares of the actively managed fund. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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9. An apparatus comprising:
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a processor; a computer readable medium storing a computer program product for estimating an intra-day approximation of the net asset value (NAV) of actively managed funds, which are traded intra-day, with the computer program product comprising instructions causing cause the processor to; group securities into groups of securities for which there is some basis to believe that their prices might move together; and
for each groupperform a principal component analysis (PCA) over some percentage of variation (y %) to arrive at a subset of the principal components as the factors for the particular group; estimate the intra-day approximation of NAV of the actively managed fund on a particular day by estimating factor sensitivities of the subset of factors in each of the groups for a particular actively managed fund in order to estimate the intra-day approximation of NAV of the actively managed fund on a particular day, wherein the factor sensitivities of the subset of factors in each of the groups for the actively managed fund do not reveal the assets of the actively managed fund portfolio to an investor who trades shares of the actively managed fund. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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13. An actively managed fund that is traded intra-day between buyers and sellers comprising:
shares or derivative instruments corresponding to an interest in the actively managed fund, with the shares or derivative instruments being traded based on a hedging basket of securities derived by applying a principal component analysis to a group of securities to select a subset of the group and weightings for the subset to account for a percentage of variation (y %) of actively managed fund, wherein the hedging basket does not reveal the assets of the actively managed fund portfolio. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
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