Method of computerized monitoring of investment trading and associated system

• US 8,200,567 B2
• Filed: 06/04/2004
• Issued: 06/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Access Data Corp. (Broadridge Financial Solutions Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Access Data Corp. (Broadridge Financial Solutions Incorporated)
• Inventors: Campbell, David H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kyle, Charles
• Assistant Examiner(s): KANG, IRENE S
• Application Number:
  US10/861,261
• Publication Number:
  US 20050273418A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,930 Days
• Field of Search: 705/35
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03
• 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

A method of computerized monitoring of investment trading includes providing historic trading data for a specific trader, selecting a plurality of trading parameters for the specific trader and obtaining current information regarding the selected parameters, and/or providing historic trading data and applying rules to the current information and/or historic trading data to determine if behavior of interest which may involve a rules violation, a departure from the rules which is not technically a violation or a potential departure from the rules which might make desirable further investigation has occurred. The system may be employed to monitor whether market timing of mutual fund investments has occurred. A corresponding computerized system is disclosed.

Claims

1. A computerized system for monitoring investment trading of shares of at least one mutual fund comprising:

at least one computer having a computer tangible readable medium having stored thereon software instructions executable by a processor of the computer, comprising;

code to provide at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund to monitor at least one trading activity of at least one specific trader associated with at least one trading transaction in at least one omnibus account, involving the shares of the at least one mutual fund, to determine at least one trading violation of the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund, wherein the at least one trading violation is capable of having at least one negative effect on at least one aspect of managing the at least one mutual fund and wherein the at least one specific trader is at least one of;

i) at least one holder of at least one account associated with the at least one trading transaction involving the shares of the at least one mutual fund,

ii) at least one broker associated with the at least one trading transaction involving the shares of the at least one mutual fund,

iii) at least one account representative associated with the at least one account associated with the at least one trading transaction involving the shares of the at least one mutual fund, or

iv) at least one account manager associated with the at least one account associated with the at least one trading transaction involving the shares of the at least one mutual fund;

code to obtain, for the at least one omnibus account, current trading data of the shares of the at least one mutual fund;

code to process, for the at least one omnibus account, the obtained current trading data of the shares of the at least one mutual fund to identify current trading data for at least one first specific trader, wherein the identified current trading data for the at least one first specific trader comprising at least one first current trading transaction in the at least one omnibus account, wherein the at least one first current trading transaction is associated with the at least one specific trader and involves the shares of the at least one mutual fund;

code to obtain historic trading data for the at least one first specific trader, wherein the obtained historic trading data for the at least one first specific trader comprising at least one first past trading transaction which is associated with the at least one first specific trader and involves the shares of the at least one mutual fund;

code to determine, in the at least one omnibus account, at least one first trading violation in at least one trading activity of the at least one first specific trader, wherein the determination is based at least in part on;

comparing at least one of the following;

at least a first portion of the identified current trading data for the at least one first specific trader, at least a second portion of the obtained historic trading data for the at least one first specific trader, or any combination thereof, with the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund to detect, in the at least one omnibus account, at least one behavior of interest in the at least one trading activity of the at least one first specific trader, wherein the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund comprises at least one standard defined by the at least one mutual fund, and wherein the at least one of the standard allows to determine, in the at least one omnibus account, based at least in part on the at least one behavior of interest in the at least one trading activity of the at least one first specific trader, whether the at least one first specific trader has violated the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund and wherein the at least one standard of the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund is related to at least one of the following;

trading volume, asset value changes, investment statistics, heuristics, legal requirements, regulatory requirements, trading parameters, trader policies, mutual fund policies, statistical analysis, neural networks, expert systems, artificial intelligence techniques, or any combination thereof; and

code to output, for the at least one omnibus account, the determined at least one first trading violation of the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund by the at least one specific trader.

2. The computerized system of claim 1, further comprising code to compare both the at least a first portion of the identified current trading data for the at least one first specific trader and the at least second portion of the obtained historic trading data for the at least one first specific trader with the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund.

3. The computerized system of claim 1, further comprising code to compare the at least a first portion of the identified current trading data for the at least one first specific trader with the at least second portion of the obtained historic trading data for the at least one first specific trader before comparing the at least a first portion of the identified current trading data for the at least one first specific trader and the at least second portion of the obtained historic trading data for the at least one first specific trader with the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund.

4. The computerized system of claim 1, wherein the code to process the obtained current trading data of the shares of the at least one mutual fund further comprising code to process the obtained current trading data of the shares regarding at least one specific mutual funds, and wherein the code to obtain current trading data of the shares of the at least one specific mutual fund further comprising code to receive the obtained current trading data in the form of a plurality of trading parameters specifically related to the at least one first specific trader.

5. The computerized system of claim 4, including the plurality of trading parameters including trade date and time.

6. The computerized system of claim 4, including the plurality of trading parameters including at least one specific account and at least one transaction price.

7. The computerized system of claim 1, including the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund being structured to at least determine if at least one specific trading pattern has existed.

8. The computerized system of claim 1, wherein the at least one of the standard comprises at least one market timing condition of the at least one mutual fund that allows to determine, based at least in part on the at least one behavior of interest in the at least one trading activity of the at least one first specific trader, whether the at least one first specific trader has violated at least market timing rule of the at least one mutual fund, by being associated with (1) at least one purchase transaction, which involves at least one purchase of shares of the at least one mutual fund, and (2) at least one sale transaction, which involves at least one sale of at least a portion of the purchased shares before a period of time specified by the at least one market timing condition has expired.

9. The computerized system of claim 1, wherein the software instructions being structured to assign and track the at least one omnibus account differently from an underlying detail account.

10. The computerized system of claim 1, wherein the at least second portion of the obtained historical trading data for the at least one first specific trader being structured to contain sub account information.

11. The computerized system of claim 1, wherein the at least second portion of the obtained historical trading data for the at least one first specific trader is obtained along with information associated with at least one past omnibus transaction of the at least one omnibus account.

12. The computerized system of claim 1, wherein the software instructions being structured to monitor the at least one trading activity of the at least one first specific trader in at least one sub account of the at least one omnibus account.

13. The computerized system of claim 7, wherein the at least one specific pattern is in respect of higher- or lower-than-expected volumes of trading in the at least one mutual fund by the at least one first specific trader.

14. The computerized system of claim 1, including code to customize the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund with respect to the at least one first specific trader.

15. The computerized system of claim 1, wherein the software instructions being structured to selectively assign and track at least one first trading activity for the at least one omnibus account differently than at least one second trading activity for at least one underlying sub account of the at least one omnibus account.

16. The computerized system of claim 1, wherein the at least second portion of the obtained historical trading data for the at least one first specific trader being structured to contain sub account information of the at least one omnibus account.

17. The computerized system of claim 1, wherein the at least second portion of the obtained historical trading data for the at least one first specific trader being structured to contain omnibus account information.

18. The computerized system of claim 4, including code to coordinate a selection of the plurality of trading parameters with the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund employed.

19. The computerized system of claim 18, including code to modify the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund to monitor for at least one specific trading conduct.

20. The computerized system of claim 12, including code to detect the at least one trading violation of the at least one market timing rule of the at least one mutual fund in the at least one sub account of the at least one omnibus account.

21. A computerized method for monitoring investment trading of shares of at least one mutual fund comprising:

providing, by at least one programmed computer, at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund to monitor at least one trading activity of at least one specific trader associated with at least one trading transaction in at least one omnibus account, involving the shares of the at least one mutual fund, to determine at least one trading violation of the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund, wherein the at least one trading violation is capable of having a negative effect on at least one aspect of managing the at least one mutual fund and wherein the at least one specific trader is at least one of;

i) at least one holder of at least one account associated with the at least one trading transaction involving the shares of the at least one mutual fund,

ii) at least one broker associated with the at least one trading transaction involving the shares of the at least one mutual fund,

iii) at least one account representative associated with the at least one account associated with the at least one trading transaction involving the shares of the at least one mutual fund, or

iv) at least one account manager associated with the at least one account associated with the at least one trading transaction involving the shares of the at least one mutual fund;

obtaining, by at least one programmed computer, for the at least one omnibus account, current trading data of the shares of the at least one mutual fund;

processing, by at least one programmed computer, for the at least one omnibus account, the obtained current trading data of the shares of the at least one mutual fund to identify current trading data for at least one first specific trader, wherein the identified current trading data for the at least one first specific trader comprising at least one first current trading transaction in the at least one omnibus account, wherein the at least one first current trading transaction is associated with the at least one specific trader and involves the shares of the at least one mutual fund;

obtaining, by at least one programmed computer, historic trading data for the at least one first specific trader, wherein the obtained historic trading data for the at least one first specific trader comprising at least one first past trading transaction which is associated with the at least one first specific trader and involves the shares of the at least one mutual fund;

determining, by at least one programmed computer, in the at least one omnibus account, at least one first trading violation in a trading activity of the at least one first specific trader, wherein the determination is based at least in part on;

comparing, by at least one programmed computer, at least one of the following;

at least first portion of the identified current trading data for the at least one first specific trader, at least second portion of the obtained historic trading data for the at least one first specific trader, or any combination thereof, with the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund to detect, in the at least one omnibus account, at least one behavior of interest in the at least one trading activity of the at least one first specific trader, wherein the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund comprises at least one standard defined by the at least one mutual fund, and wherein the at least one of the standard allows to determine, in the at least one omnibus account, based at least in part on the at least one behavior of interest in the at least one trading activity of the at least one first specific trader in the at least one omnibus account, whether the at least one first specific trader has violated the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund and wherein the at least one standard of the at least one rules of the at least one mutual fund is related to at least one of the following;

trading volume, asset value changes, investment statistics, heuristics, legal requirements, regulatory requirements, trading parameters, trader policies, mutual fund policies, statistical analysis, neural networks, expert systems, artificial intelligence techniques, or any combination thereof; and

outputting, by at least one programmed computer, for the at least one omnibus account, the determined at least one first trading violation of the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund by the at least one specific trader.

22. The computerized method of claim 21, further comprising a step of comparing both the at least a first portion of the identified current trading data for the at least one first specific trader and the at least second portion of the obtained historic trading data for the at least one first specific trader with the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund.

23. The computerized method of claim 21, further comprising a step of comparing the at least a first portion of the identified current trading data for the at least one first specific trader with the at least second portion of the obtained historic trading data for the at least one first specific trader before comparing the at least a first portion of the identified current trading data for the at least one first specific trader and the at least second portion of the obtained historic trading data for the at least one first specific trader with the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund.

24. The computerized method of claim 21, wherein the processing the obtained current trading data of the shares of the at least one mutual fund further comprising a step of processing, by at least one programmed computer, the obtained current trading data of the shares regarding at least one specific mutual funds, and wherein the code to obtain current trading data of the shares of the at least one specific mutual fund further comprising a step of receiving, by at least one programmed computer, the obtained current trading data in the form of a plurality of trading parameters specifically related to the at least one first specific trader.

25. The computerized method of claim 24, including the plurality of trading parameters including trade date and time.

26. The computerized method of claim 24, including the plurality of trading parameters including at least one specific account and at least one transaction price.

27. The computerized method of claim 21, including the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund being structured to at least determine if at least one specific trading pattern has existed.

28. The computerized method of claim 21, wherein the at least one of the standard comprises at least one market timing condition of the at least one mutual fund that allows to determine, based at least in part on the at least one behavior of interest in the at least one trading activity of the at least one first specific trader, whether the at least one first specific trader has violated at least market timing rule of the at least one mutual fund, by being associated with (1) at least one purchase transaction, which involves at least one purchase of shares of the at least one mutual fund, and (2) at least one sale transaction, which involves at least one sale of at least a portion of the purchased shares before a period of time specified by the at least one market timing condition has expired.

29. The computerized method of claim 21, wherein the steps of the method being structured to assign and track the at least one omnibus account differently from an underlying detail account.

30. The computerized method of claim 21, wherein the at least second portion of the obtained historical trading data for the at least one first specific trader being structured to contain sub account information.

31. The computerized method of claim 21, wherein at least second portion of the obtained historical trading data for the at least one first specific trader is obtained along with information associated with at least one past omnibus transaction of the at least one omnibus account.

32. The computerized method of claim 21, wherein the steps of the method being structured to monitor the at least one trading activity of the at least one first specific trader in at least one sub account of the at least one omnibus account.

33. The computerized method of claim 27, wherein the at least one specific pattern is in respect of higher- or lower-than-expected volumes of trading in the at least one mutual fund by the at least one first specific trader.

34. The computerized method of claim 21, including a step of customizing, by at least one programmed computer, the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund with respect to the at least one first specific trader.

35. The computerized method of claim 21, wherein the steps of the method being structured to selectively assign and track at least one first trading activity for the at least one omnibus account differently than at least one second trading activity for at least one underlying sub account of the at least one omnibus account.

36. The computerized method of claim 21, wherein the at least second portion of the obtained historical trading data for the at least one first specific trader being structured to contain sub account information of the at least one omnibus account.

37. The computerized method of claim 21, wherein the at least a second portion of the obtained historical trading data for the at least one first specific trader being structured to contain omnibus account information.

38. The computerized method of claim 24, including a step of coordinating, by at least one programmed computer, a selection of the plurality of trading parameters with the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund employed.

39. The computerized method of claim 38, including a step of modifying, by at least one programmed computer, the at least one rule of the at least one mutual fund to monitor for at least one specific trading conduct.

40. The computerized method of claim 32, including a step of detecting, by at least one programmed computer, the at least one trading violation of the at least one market timing rule of the at least one mutual fund in the at least one sub account of the at least one omnibus account.