Patent ID: 7835976

Claim:
A computer system for fund management comprising: a processor configured to: (a) receive information related to a plurality of fund trading transactions of a fund, through at least one of a plurality of portals, wherein the information is received straight-through and without waiting for an end-of-day omnibus settlement, and wherein the information includes a dollar amount associated with each of the plurality of fund trading transactions; (b) perform financial calculations for the plurality of fund trading transactions based on the received information, wherein said financial calculations include a dollar amount associated with each of the plurality of fund trading transactions of the fund as of a point in time during the trading day; a cumulative dollar amount associated with the plurality of fund trading transactions of the fund as of the point in time during the trading day; and an amount of trading activity based on the plurality of fund trading transactions of the fund received as of the point in time during the trading day; (c) automatically update a data structure for the plurality of fund trading transactions of the fund in response to the financial calculations performed; and (d) in response to the automatic updating of the data structure, present indicia on a first graphical user interface corresponding to the updated data structure, the processor configured to present indicia comprises each of the following: (i) update a display of a graph representing real-time flow of the dollar amount associated with each of the plurality of fund trading transactions of the fund, the real-time flow measured from a starting point of the trading day to the point in time during the trading day; (ii) update a display of a table of the cumulative dollar amount for the plurality of fund trading transactions of the fund corresponding to the real time flow; and (iii) update a display of an alert in the event that a predetermined criterion is met, the criterion selected from the group consisting of whether the dollar amount for at least one of the plurality of fund trading transactions exceeds a first threshold as of the point in time during the trading day, and whether the amount of trading activity for a trading day exceeds a second threshold as of the point in time during the trading day; and (e) the computer system repeating limitations (a)-(d) continuously and in real-time during a trading day.