Inventors:
Kendrick W. Kam - Los Altos CA, US
Bruce L. Horn - Mammoth Lakes CA, US
International Classification:
G06Q 40/00
US Classification:
705 35, 705 36 R, 705 37, 463 10, 463 25, 708131, 708132, 708134
Abstract:
Internet-based business system and management programs therefor, and more particularly to financial investment management characterized by a unique system of attracting and identifying the Best Investors, including offering, facilitating and managing performance-based investment competitions based on model (virtual) investment portfolios, creating actual portfolios for the identified Best Investor, creating and operating actual mutual funds based on the identified Best Investors as fund managers, and providing a full suite of related subscriber and investor services associated therewith as a fund supermarket. The invention includes facilitation of daily feedback of one or more significant and appropriate financial performance metric(s), preferably the NAV (iTAV), of identified stocks and funds. Performance ranking of advice is provided so that the investor knows the track record (ranking), on an ongoing basis, of a particular advisor, thereby establishing credibility of comments. Important analytic tools are provided, including unique reports on: Overall Performance, Stratification, Volatility, Market Timing, Fundamentals, and Gor GRatio, which function as powerful decision tools for the site members, fund managers and subscribers.