Plain and simple, the iFund allows the Shareholders to manage their fund. Anyone who invests in the fund has a proportionate say in what is bought or sold.
Shareholders begin the process by nominating stocks.
Investors then vote their shares based on discussions that take place on the message boards and chat rooms and research posted on the site. To understand Emergent Intelligence, it is helpful to understand what happens anytime you have a high degree of connected nodes that form a network. Synergy from the individual nodes connect and act in concert to form a higher order of thinking. Highly amalgamated members exhibit emergent properties. These are properties that are not present to a lesser degree in the component members, such as consciousness when you connect enough neurons or liquidity when you have enough water molecules.