Systems and methods for trading actively managed funds

• US 8,170,934 B2
• Filed: 01/08/2004
• Issued: 05/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NYSE American LLC (Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: NYSE Amex LLC (Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.)
• Inventors: Weber, Clifford J., Alexander, Carol, MacQueen, Jason, Baker, Charles A., Norman, Terry, Gastineau, Gary L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kyle, Charles
• Assistant Examiner(s): POLLOCK, GREGORY A
• Application Number:
  US10/753,069
• Publication Number:
  US 20040186803A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,036 Days
• Field of Search: 705/35, 705/36.R, 705/36.T, 705/37
• US Class Current: 705/35
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/06 Asset management; Financial planning or analysis

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided to determine an estimated value of a traded fund whose assets are not publicly disclosed on a daily basis, where a computer system includes one or more computers and is programmed to determine an estimated value of the traded fund. Embodiments include operating the computer system to calculate an estimated value of the traded fund based on the value of a proxy portfolio, where the identities of the assets of the traded fund are not disclosed to an investor who trades shares of the traded fund on a secondary market, and publicly disclosing the estimated value of the traded fund periodically throughout a trading day.

Claims

1. A method executed by a computer system to determine an estimated value of an exchange traded fund whose assets are not publicly disclosed on a daily basis, where the computer system includes one or more computers and is programmed to determine an estimated value of the exchange traded fund, the method comprising:

determining, by the computer system, a set of risk factors from a risk factor model;

determining by the computer system a set of exchange traded fund sensitivity coefficients, wherein each exchange traded fund sensitivity coefficient specifies the exposure of an exchange traded fund to one of the risk factors in the set of risk factors;

storing the exchange traded fund sensitivity coefficients on computer readable media;

creating by the computer system a proxy portfolio that does not reveal the assets of the exchange traded fund and has substantially the same sensitivity coefficients as the exchange traded fund;

calculating by the computer system the estimated value of the exchange traded fund based on the value of the proxy portfolio, where the identities of the assets of the exchange traded fund are not publicly disclosed on a daily basis to an investor who trades shares of the exchange traded fund on a secondary market; and

publicly disclosing the estimated value of the exchange traded fund periodically throughout a trading day.

2. A method executed by a computer system to calculate an estimated value for an exchange traded fund without publicly disclosing the assets of the exchange traded fund, where the computer system includes one or more computers programmed to calculate an estimated value of the exchange traded fund, the method comprising:

determining, by a computer system, a set of risk factors from a risk factor model;

receiving or calculating by the computer system a set of exchange traded fund sensitivity coefficients, wherein each exchange traded fund sensitivity coefficient specifies the exposure of an exchange traded fund to one of the risk factors in the set of risk factors;

calculating by the computer system weights of securities to create a proxy portfolio that does not reveal the assets of the exchange traded fund and has substantially the same sensitivity coefficients as the exchange traded fund;

calculating by the computer system the estimated value for the exchange traded fund based on the value of the proxy portfolio where the identities of the assets of the exchange traded fund are not disclosed to an investor who trades shares of the exchange traded fund on a secondary market, and the assets of the exchange traded fund are not publicly disclosed on a daily basis; and

publishing the estimated value of the exchange traded fund periodically throughout a trading day.

3. A method executed by a computer system for trading shares of an exchange traded fund without revealing the exchange traded fund assets, wherein an estimated value for the exchange traded fund is calculated by the computer system, which includes one or more computers programmed to derive an estimated value of the exchange traded fund, the method comprising:

determining, by a computer system, a set of risk factors from a risk factor model;

determining or receiving by the computer system a set of exchange traded fund sensitivity coefficients, wherein each exchange traded fund sensitivity coefficient specifies the exposure of the exchange traded fund to one of the risk factors in the set of risk factors;

storing the exchange traded fund sensitivity coefficients on computer readable media;

calculating by the computer system weights of securities to create a proxy portfolio that does not reveal the assets of an exchange traded fund and has substantially the same sensitivity coefficients as the exchange traded fund;

calculating by the computer system the estimated value of the exchange traded fund based on the value of the proxy portfolio, where the identities of the assets of the exchange traded fund are not disclosed to an investor who trades shares of the exchange traded fund on a secondary market, and the assets of the exchange traded fund are not publicly disclosed on a daily basis; and

publishing, from a computer system, the estimated value of the exchange traded fund during a trading day.

4. A method executed by a computer system to calculate an estimated value for an exchange traded fund without publicly disclosing the assets of the exchange traded fund executed by a computer system including one or more computers, the computer system programmed to calculate an estimated value of the exchange traded fund, the method comprising:

determining, using a computer system, a set of risk factors from a risk factor model;

receiving over a network or calculating by the computer system a set of exchange traded fund sensitivity coefficients, wherein each exchange traded fund sensitivity coefficient specifies the exposure of an exchange traded fund to one of the risk factors in the set of risk factors;

calculating by the computer system weights of securities to create a proxy portfolio that does not reveal the assets of the exchange traded fund and with substantially the same sensitivity coefficients as the exchange traded fund;

calculating by the computer system the estimated value for the exchange traded fund based on the value of the proxy portfolio, where the identities of the assets of the exchange traded fund are not disclosed to an investor who trades shares of the exchange traded fund on a secondary market, and the assets of the exchange traded fund are not publicly disclosed on a daily basis; and

publicly disclosing, using a computer system, the estimated value for the exchange traded fund throughout the day.

5. A method for trading shares of an exchange traded fund without revealing the fund assets, wherein an estimated value for the exchange traded fund is derived on a computer system that includes one or more computers and is programmed to derive an estimated value of the exchange traded fund, the method comprising:

determining, under control of a computer system, a set of risk factors from a risk factor model;

calculating or receiving through a network by the computer system a set of exchange traded fund sensitivity coefficients, wherein each exchange traded fund sensitivity coefficient specifies the exposure of an exchange traded fund to one of the risk factors in the set of risk factors;

calculating by the computer system weights of securities to create a proxy portfolio that does not reveal the exchange traded fund assets and has substantially the same sensitivity coefficients as the exchange traded fund;

calculating by the computer system the estimated value of the exchange traded fund based on the value of the proxy portfolio, where the identities of the exchange traded fund assets are not disclosed to an investor who trades shares of the exchange traded fund on a secondary market, and the assets of the exchange traded fund are not publicly disclosed on a daily basis; and

publicly disclosing, under control of a computer system, the estimated value of the exchange traded fund periodically throughout a trading day.