Patent Publication Number: US-7584132-B2

Title: System for facilitating selection of investments

Description:
CROSS REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS 
   The present patent application claims priority from U.S. provisional patent application 60/266,705, Brian A. Hunter, et al., System for selecting portfolio managers, filed Feb. 6, 2001. 

   BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
   1. Field of the Invention 
   The invention relates generally to systems for presenting information to users in a manner which aids the user in selecting from among alternatives and more specifically to interactive systems which aid investors in selecting investments that best meet the investor&#39;s requirements. 
   2. Description of Related Art 
   The development of networked computing, and of the Internet in particular, has made life both easier and more difficult for the investor. Life has become easier because it is easier than ever before to find and retrieve the data that is needed to make wise investment decisions and to manipulate the data once it has been retrieved. Life has become harder because the very plethora of data and the number of ways of manipulating it complicate the process of turning the data into the information the investor needs: namely, information which permits the investor to choose wisely among alternative investment possibilities. 
   The bases upon which a wise investor chooses his or her investments are return, risk, and diversity. The investor wants investments which offer a relatively good return at a relatively low risk and further wants diversity among the risks that his investments are exposed to, so that circumstances which produce a loss on one investment do not produce losses on others of the investments. Thus, what the investor needs to choose wisely is a way of looking at data about individual investment possibilities which reveals the following for each investment of interest with regard to a period of time:
         the overall return yielded by the investment over the period as compared to a benchmark of interest;   the volatility of the investment over the period, which provides a measure of its risk; and   the resiliency of the investment with regard to market shocks over the period.       

   What an investor is of course looking for is investments which maximize return and resiliency while minimizing volatility. 
   Once the investor has found a number of investments of interest, the investor needs to look at groups of the possible investments to see how investments in the group relate to each other from the point of view of diversity of risk. Diversity of risk measures the degree to which the risks that affect the value of one investment are independent of the risks that affect another investment. In general, the greater the diversity of risk in a set of investments, the more secure the value of the entire set of investments is. 
   What is needed is a single easy-to-use tool which provides the above information to the investor and provides it in a fashion which makes it easy for the investor to compare the risks and returns of individual investment possibilities and to see how the investment possibilities relate to each other with regard to diversity of risk. It is an object of the invention disclosed herein to provide such a tool. 
   SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
   The tool of the invention analyzes the performance of a set of investment opportunities. The tool includes an analyzer that analyzes investment performance information covering a period of time for each investment opportunity of the set and a graphical user interface that is usable by a user of the apparatus to control operation of the analyzer and display results of the analysis. The analyzer operates in a screening mode whose displayed results permit the user to compare performance of the investment opportunities and in a fitting mode whose displayed results permit the user to compare performance of pairs of the investment opportunities with regard to diversity of risk. 
   In further aspects of the invention, the analyzer computes the Hunter Ratio, a pseudo-reliability metric, for each of the investment opportunities in the set and a BLEND ANXIETY™ metric for pairs of the investment opportunities. In a preferred embodiment, the analyzer computes the Hunter Ratio in the screening mode and the Blend Anxiety metric in the fitting mode. In the preferred embodiment, the Blend Anxiety metric of a pair of investment opportunities is the covariance of the pair&#39;s performance. 
   In another aspect of the invention, the tool can be used for a method of investment analysis in which the investment opportunities are first analyzed to determine their Hunter Ratios and pairs of the investment opportunities are then analyzed to determine their Blend Anxiety. 
   The tool&#39;s graphical user interface further permits the user to select a subset of the potential investment opportunities and to do so according to asset classes of the potential investment opportunities. The user can also select a set of operations to be performed on the investment performance information by the analyzer and a portion of the period of time for which the investment performance information is available. The operations will be performed on the investment performance information for the selected portion of the period of time. The user can further select subsets of the investors from which the pairs for which the Blend Anxiety is computed are taken. Results of the analysis are output to spreadsheets which can be manipulated in the customary fashion by the user. 
   Other objects and advantages will be apparent to those skilled in the arts to which the invention pertains upon perusal of the following Detailed Description and drawing, wherein: 

   
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING 
       FIG. 1  is a flowchart showing operation of the tool for facilitating selection of investments; 
       FIG. 2  shows the initial window of the tool&#39;s user interface; 
       FIG. 3  shows details of period tab  209 ; 
       FIG. 4  shows details of screening tab  211 ; 
       FIG. 5  shows subwindows used in setting up screening; 
       FIG. 6  shows a spreadsheet with the output of the screening operation; 
       FIG. 7  shows details of fitting tab  213 ; 
       FIG. 8  shows a spreadsheet with the output of the fitting operation; and 
       FIG. 9  is a block diagram of a computer system in which the tool may be embodied. 
   

   Reference numbers in the drawing have three or more digits: the two right-hand digits are reference numbers in the drawing indicated by the remaining digits. Thus, an item with the reference number  203  first appears as item  203  in  FIG. 2 . 
   DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
   The following Detailed Description will begin with an overview of the tool as it appears to the user and will then describe an implementation of the tool. 
   Functional Overview of the Tool:  FIG. 1   
   The tool is implemented in a standard computer system, with a standard graphical user interface (GUI) in which the output is a display on a display device such as a CRT and inputs to active areas on the display are made using a keyboard and a pointing and selection device such as a mouse. The user can do three things with the tool:
         select asset classes and investment opportunities belonging to the asset classes to be investigated and benchmarks and time periods to be used in the investigation; an asset class is to be understood in the present context as any set of investment opportunities which share a common characteristic, including belonging to a particular investment strategy; benchmarks are measures such as the rate of return on U.S. bonds against which other investments are compared;   screen the investment opportunities by seeing how they compare according to various measures of investment value for the selected benchmarks and time periods; and   fit investment opportunities to see the extent to which they increase the diversity of risk in a set of investment possibilities and therefore reduce the overall risk of the set.       

     FIG. 1  is a flowchart  101  which shows operation of the tool at the level just described. A user starts using the tool at  103 , and the tool executes loop  105  until the user desires to stop. At any point in his or her use of the tool, the user has the choice to perform activities belonging to one of three general classes, as shown by case statement  107 :
         In selection branch  109 , editing the general parameters which determine the asset classes and investment opportunities to be investigated, the benchmarks, and the time period ( 111 ).   In screening branch  113 , the following activities:
           editing screening parameters including output fields, output calculations to be performed to produce additional output fields, and time periods for the output calculations ( 117 );   doing the output calculations; and   displaying the output fields.   
           In fitting branch  121 , the following activities:
           editing fitting parameters that determine which investment opportunities are compared which each other for diversity of risk ( 123 );   doing the fitting calculations ( 125 ); and   displaying the fitting results ( 127 ).   
               
   In general, a user of the tool will proceed as follows: having selected asset classes, investments belonging to the asset classes, periods of time, and output calculations of interest in selection branch  109  and having used screening branch  113  to see the performance of the selected investment opportunities, the user will select a promising subset of the investment opportunities that were screened in screening branch  113  for fitting in fitting branch  121  to see what the diversity of risk offered by the investments in the promising subset is. The user may then use the diversity of risk in making his or her final selections from among the investments originally selected in selection branch  109 . 
   Details of the Tool as Seen by the User 
   In a preferred embodiment, the investment opportunities that the user is comparing are managed investment funds; in the user interface, these managed investment funds are termed managers. It is, however, important to note that the operations performed by the tool could be performed with regard to any investment opportunity for which data is available which is analogous to that used in the present invention to analyze fund managers. 
   Windows for Select Branch  109   FIGS. 2 and 3   
   When a user begins using the tool, the first window encountered is window  201  shown in  FIG. 2 . In terms of  FIG. 1 , window  201  belongs to branch  109 . Window  201  permits the user to specify managers and benchmarks to be used in evaluating the selected managers. Tab control  203  allows the user to switch between manager and benchmark views ( 205 ). Manager view  203  includes a list  204  of managers; individual managers in the list may be selected using the check boxes to the left of the list entries. The buttons at  215  permit the user to select all managers in list  204  or to clear all managers in list  204 . “Select Asset Class” dropdown  202  allows the user to filter the list by asset class; when an asset class is selected, only the managers who manage investments belonging to that asset class appear in list  204 . The “All” option shows all managers for which the tool has performance data. Tab  207  is the Assign Benchmark tab. When a manager is selected from list  204 , it is added to list  208  of manager-benchmark pairs. The manager will then be screened against the selected benchmark. Clicking “Set” button  210  in a list entry in list  208  will update all managers selected for the benchmark with the information for the benchmark defined in that row. As will be explained in more detail later, period tab  209  permits the user to specify an analysis period for the screening and/or fitting, tab  211  selects the window for the screening operation, and tab  213  selects the window for the fitting operation. 
     FIG. 3  shows window  301  of branch  109  with a detailed view of tab  209  which the user employs to determine the period of time to be used in the screening and/or fitting analyses of the managers selected in tab  203  with regard to the benchmarks selected with regard to tab  207 . The available options are:
         All  303 —all reported periods for each selected manager;   Maximum common periods across selected-managers  305 —the timeframe is limited to the maximum intervals that all selected managers share   Last  307 —The time period is limited to the most recent entered years/months (e.g. 6 months, 3 years, etc.)   Custom Period  311 —User may enter any time period. A start date for the period can be specified, or the user may choose “From Inception” ( 313 ). Similarly, the user may also specify an ending date, or choose “Last Reported” ( 315 ).
 
Windows for Screening Branch  113 :  FIGS. 4-6 
       
     FIG. 4  shows window  401  that appears when the user selects screening tab  211 . This tab corresponds to block  115  in flowchart  101 . It permits the user to further define a screening operation that uses the managers, benchmark, and time period selected using screens  201  and  301 . Using tab  211 , the user may define the fields he or she wishes to appear in the display produced for the results of the screening operation and may also specify that the screening operation be performed. Beginning at  403 , that portion of tab  211  provides checkboxes which permit the user to select a number of fields to appear in the output. Portion  405  permits the user to select operations from a list  407  of operations. When an operation is selected, a field containing the results of the operation appears in the display produced for the results of the screening operation. When the user has finished setting up the scan using screen  401 , the user clicks on button  417  to start the scan. 
   Continuing with details of portion  403 , the start date, end date, and # of months check boxes cause fields to be produced with time expressions as determined by the settings of time tab  209 . The values that appear in the remaining fields are defined relative to the value of the benchmark that was assigned using tab  207 . The values are calculated as follows:
         % Benchmark Upside—Calculated as (Total Positive Returns)/(Total Positive Benchmark Returns)   % Benchmark Downside—Calculated as (Total Negative Returns)/(Total Negative Benchmark Returns)   % Benchmark Up/Down Ratio—Calculated as (% Benchmark Upside)/(% Benchmark Downside)   % Periods w/Gain—Calculated as (Number of periods w/positive returns)/(Total number of periods)   Average Gain To Loss—Calculated as (Sum of positive returns/Number of positive returns)       

   Output calculations portion  405  permits the user to specify calculations that are to be performed using the data for the selected managers and benchmarks. The output calculations are selected using subwindow  407 , which permits selection of the calculation ( 409 ), the period over which it is to run ( 411 ), and the format  413  in which it is to be displayed. Button  415  permits the user to customize the calculation period. Only a single output calculation, the Hunter Ratio, is specified at  407 ; however, the output calculations which may be specified using window portion  405  include the following in the preferred embodiment: the Sharpe ratio, rolling returns, drawdown, standard deviation, and the Hunter ratio. More than one such calculation may be specified for a given screening. With the exception of the Hunter ratio, these calculations are well known. All of these calculations employ rolling returns for the manager and/or the benchmark. The rolling return is calculated as follows:
     Rolling Returns—the rolling return for the analysis period:
       For each return in series   Rolling Return=Rolling Return * (1+Period Return)   Total Return=Rolling Return−1   Next   
       

   In summary, the calculations are performed as follows:
         Drawdown—Ratio of the series to the series benchmark over a defined period of market volatility: (Rolling Return for period)/(Rolling Benchmark Return for period)   Sharpe Ratio—Calculated as:       

   
     
       
         
           
             
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           Hunter Ratio—The average of all n-period Sharpe ratios divided by the standard deviation of all n-period Sharpe ratios for a series. Calculated as:
 
Average(Sharpe Ratio over n periods)/StdDev(Sharpe Ratio over n periods)
 
         
       
     
  
   Computation of the standard deviation is too well known to require further explanation. 
   The Hunter Ratio is a novel metric. It reflects a manager&#39;s performance persistence over time while minimizing period selection bias. It thus provides a notion of the manager&#39;s reliability without the computational requirements of reliability measurements such as those described in PCT/US01/00636, Hunter, et al., Resource allocation techniques, filed Jan. 9, 2001, published on Jul. 26, 2001 as WO/2001/053998, and hereby incorporated by reference into the present patent application for all purposes. For this reason, the Hunter Ratio is termed a pseudo-reliability measure. The Hunter Ratio is measured over a minimum of 3 year rolling periods from inception of a manager&#39;s performance and becomes more statistically valid at 5 and 7 year rolling periods. 
   Coupling the Hunter Ratio with the other statistics produced in screening adds still more perspective. For example, we can screen over shorter term convulsive periods pertinent to the asset class of the managers being screened and use drawdown to take a snapshot of how each manager looks under the microscope of disaster periods. The Hunter Ratio and drawdown together give a unique picture of the likelihood of a manager to weather both the worst market storms and more moderate intermittent market pressures and at the same time deliver an absolute upside at a margin above both competitors and a relevant benchmark for the asset class in question. 
     FIG. 5  shows a number of subwindows that are used with window  401  to further configure screening. Subwindow  501  appears when button  415  is clicked on for the Hunter Ratio entry in list  407 ; it permits the user to define one or more periods over which the Hunter Ratio is to be calculated. Subwindow  503  appears when button  415  is clicked for any of the other output calculations; it permits the user to specify that the analysis period indicated on period tab  209  be used or to specify one or more special analysis periods for the computation. The special periods may be specified in the same way as time periods on period tab  209 . The results of the calculation for each of the time periods selected for the Hunter Ratio or the other computations will appear in a separate field in the spreadsheet. Where the calculation involves a benchmark, it is the benchmark selected using tab  207 . Subwindow  505  appears after the user clicks on start screening button  417 . It permits the user to specify the order in which the fields will appear in the rows of the spreadsheet that is the result of the screening operations. The vertical order of the fields in subwindow  505  becomes the left-to-right order of the fields in the spreadsheet row. 
   In a preferred embodiment, the results of the calculations specified using screening tab  211  on the managers and benchmark specified using tabs  203  and  205  for the period specified using tab  209  are output to a spreadsheet.  FIG. 6  shows the spreadsheet as it appears where the user has specified a benchmark and four managers. Spreadsheet  601  has two worksheets, one, identified by tab  609 , which shows the results of screening, and one, identified by tab  611 , which shows the results of fitting. In spreadsheet  601 , the user has selected tab  609 . The spreadsheet has a row  605  in table  603  for each of the selected managers. The fields in the row correspond to those selected using tab  211 ; they are ordered as the user specifies in subwindow  505  (note, however, that the order actually shown in subwindow  505  was not used for spreadsheet  601 ). Header  607  has the titles of the fields. Any of the usual spreadsheet operations can of course be performed on table  603 , including sorting the rows according to the values in a selected field. Here, as shown at  613 , the rows have been sorted by the value of the Hunter Ratio. 
   Windows for Fitting Branch  121 :  FIGS. 7 and 8   
   The fitting operation compares pairs of managers from the point of view of diversity of risk. This is done by computing the correlation and the covariance for the returns of the pair. The greater the diversity of risk, the lower the correlation and covariance for the pair. The advantage of computing the covariance in addition to the correlation is that covariance is a more powerful indicator of diversification. It is more powerful because it measures diversification and the impact of the blending of the volatilities of the two managers. Mathematically, the covariance is the product of the correlation coefficients of the two managers multiplied by their respective standard deviations. So, you can have two highly volatile managers in two very different asset classes and if the correlation is near zero then they may very well be an excellent fit or, vice versa, a high correlation where the managers are less volatile can result in a very poor combination that yields a lot of investor anxiety when both deliver large negative returns at the same time. It is this relationship between the covariance and investor anxiety which has lead the developers of the present invention to use the term Blend Anxiety in their user interface. Other measures of Blend Anxiety may be used in other embodiments of the tool. One such measure is provided by the investment allocation techniques described in PCT/US01/00636, cited above. 
     FIG. 7  shows window  701 , in which the details of fitting tab  213  can be seen. Fitting tab  213  permits the user to select two groups of managers upon which the fitting operation will be performed. One group is termed the x axis group and the other is termed the y axis group. Each member of the x axis group is fitted to each member of the y axis group. The fitting operation is done over a period that is specified using tab  209 . 
   The groups of managers are selected from the set of managers that was previously specified using tab  203 . When the user selects fitting tab  213 , the managers that were previously selected at  204  appear in selected items field  703 . Buttons  709  and  711  can be used to move the managers in field  703  between that field and x-axis field  705 , which lists the managers currently selected for the x-axis group. The equivalent buttons for y-axis field  707  can be used to move managers between field  703  and y-axis field  707 , which lists the managers currently selected for the y-axis group. Managers can be ordered within field  705  by using buttons  713 , and the same can be done within field  707  using the equivalent buttons there. Clicking on preview button  715  provides a preview of the arrangement of the spreadsheet that will be produced by the fitting operation, while clicking on start fitting button  717  begins the fitting operation on the selected X axis group and Y axis group. 
     FIG. 8  shows the spreadsheet worksheet  801  that results from the fitting operation. Worksheet  801  appears when the user selects tab  611 . In this case, worksheet  801  shows the result of applying the fitting operation to an X-axis group  806  of three managers and a Y-axis group  802  of six managers. The fitting operation is for the time period specified at  811 . In general, each member of the Y axis group has a row  803  in the spreadsheet; each member of the X axis group has two fields  805  in each of the rows. The contents of the fields for a given X axis manager in the row belonging to a given Y axis manager are the correlation coefficient and the covariance values for the pair made up of the given X axis manager and the given Y axis manager. In row  803 , field  807  contains the correlation coefficient and field  809  contains the covariance value. In the display, they are termed “Diversity” (Div) and “Blend Anxiety” (BA). The arrangement shown in window  801  makes it easy for users of the tool to understand how two investment possibilities relate to each other with regard to diversity of risk. 
   Measuring Reliability of Combinations of Potential Investments 
   Together, the Hunter Ration and Blend Anxiety provide users of the tool with a way of measuring the reliability of combinations of potential investments. As indicated above, the Hunter Ratio reflects a manager&#39;s performance persistence over time, and thus measures reliability of a manager. Thus, in order to find reliable combinations of managers, the user can first screen the managers in question to determine their Hunter Ratios, and then fit pairs of managers with acceptable Hunter Ratios. The pairs with the best fits make up a set of managers which can then be further analyzed using the resource allocation techniques described in PCT/US01/00636, cited above. 
   Implementation of the Tool in a Computer System:  FIG. 9   
     FIG. 9  shows a computer system  901  in which a preferred embodiment of the tool is embodied. In the preferred embodiment, the tool is termed the ProFiler. System  901  has two main components: a server processor  909  and one or more client processors  925  connected to the server processor. Server processor  909  further has a connection to Internet  907  and via that connection to databases containing benchmark data  903  and manager data  905 . 
   Continuing with the details of server processor  909 , server processor  909  further includes copy databases  917  and  919 . Copy database  917  contains a copy of data from benchmark data  903  and copy database  919  contains a copy of data from manager data  905 . The copies  917  and  919  are obtained by downloading via Internet  907  from databases  903  and  905 . In a preferred embodiment, benchmark database  903  is a commercial database provided by Ibbotson Associates and manager data  905  is the commercial Plan Sponsor Network database provided by Effron. ProFiler database  921  is a MICROSOFT® ACCESS® database made by Microsoft Corporation. 
   When the ProFiler is operating, profiler database  921  contains benchmark information from database  917  and manager information from database  919  and may also contain further manager information provided by users of the ProFiler. In a preferred embodiment, data base  921  is implemented in a Microsoft® Access database system. Server processor  909  further includes ProFiler server side application program  911 , which performs those parts of the operation of the ProFiler which are done on server processor  909  and analysis engine  913 , which is the part of application program  911  which does the calculations necessary to produce the output spread sheets. Server-side application program  911  is hosted in OS host services program  915 , which provides application program  911  with middleware services such as connection pooling, instance management, and threading. In a preferred embodiment, server processor  909  is running under the Microsoft WINDOWS SERVER® operating system and OS host services  915  is embodied as Windows Component Services. 
   Client processor  925  is a standard PC running a Microsoft WINDOWS® operating system. The operating system provides a GUI which is displayed on monitor  929  and receives inputs from mouse  931  and keyboard  933 . Also included in client processor  925  is an EXCEL® spreadsheet program which manipulates profiler spreadsheets  923 . ProFiler client-side application  927  receives inputs from and provides outputs to the GUI and also provides result data received from server-side application  911  to profiler spreadsheets  923 . 
   Prior to commencing operation of the profiler, a manager of server processor  909  downloads copy  917  of benchmark data from database  903  and copy  919  of manager data from database  905 . When a user at client processor  925  begins execution of profiler client-side application  927 , server-side application  911  provides initial window  201 ; after the user has selected managers, a benchmark, a period, and the screening operation, and for the screening operation, the results fields to be output and the operations to be performed, server-side application  911  responds to these inputs when the user clicks on start screening button  417  by copying the data for the selected managers and benchmark for the selected period from databases  917  and  919  to database  921 . Analysis engine  913  then performs the specified operations and outputs the results to client-side application program  927 , which incorporates them into the screening worksheet of the ProFiler spreadsheet in spreadsheets  923 . The user of client processor  925  can then use Excel to manipulate the spreadsheet in the usual fashion. 
   If the user instead selects the fitting operation, the user may again select managers and a time period and can also assign managers to either the X-axis group or the Y-axis group. When the user has done these things using window  701  and clicks on start fitting button  717 , analysis engine  913  computes the correlation coefficient and the covariance for each possible pairing of a manager from the X-axis group with a manager from the Y-axis group and outputs the results to client-side application program  927 , which incorporates them into the fitting workshop of the ProFiler spreadsheet in spreadsheets  923 . Again, the user of client processor  925  can then use Excel to manipulate the spreadsheet in the usual fashion. 
   CONCLUSION 
   The foregoing Detailed Description has disclosed to those skilled in the relevant technologies the best mode presently known to the inventor of making and using his tool for analyzing investment opportunities and has further disclosed the best modes presently known to the inventor of computing the Hunter Ratio and Blend Anxiety and using these metrics to analyze investment opportunities. 
   While the tool provides a particularly good environment for the application of the Hunter Ratio and Blend Anxiety to the problem of analyzing investment opportunities, the Hunter Ration and Blend Anxiety are useful in many other investment analysis contexts and with many other investment analysis tools. The user interface disclosed herein is further optimal for users of the tool, but many other kinds of user interfaces are possible, including ones which offer subsets of the functionality provided by the disclosed user interface and ones which use different graphical user interfaces or even character-based user interfaces. Similarly, it is particularly advantageous to output the results of operations performed by the tool to spreadsheets, where user of the tool can easily further manipulate the results, but in other embodiments, any kind of graphical or character display device may be used to display the results. Finally, the particular hardware embodiment disclosed herein is particularly advantageous when the investment performance information is available on the Internet and is being shared by a group of users, but implementations of the tool may range across the spectrum from an implementation in which the user interface for the tool is implemented in a browser, with all computation and display creation being done by a server that is connected by a network to the system in which the browser is operating to an implementation in which the tool is implemented in a stand-alone PC or other computer system. The investment performance data may be obtained via the Internet, as in the preferred embodiment, by means of portable media such as CD-Rom or magnetic disks, or may be input by the user. 
   For all of the foregoing reasons, the Detailed Description is to be regarded as being in all respects exemplary and not restrictive, and the breadth of the invention disclosed here in is to be determined not from the Detailed Description, but rather from the claims as interpreted with the full breadth permitted by the patent laws.