Patent ID: 7376610

Claim:
A method for computer-assisted generation of investment decisions and/or strategies in the field of corporate bonds including high yield (HY) corporate bonds, comprising: carrying out computerized evaluation of capital market financial assets, including: obtaining investment relevant market business information; filtering the obtained market business information in order to separate said obtained market business information into four interlinked areas, wherein the first of said four interlinked areas relates to individual HY issue position, wherein the second of said four interlinked areas relates to market and industry condition, wherein the third of said four interlinked areas relates to demand status, and wherein the fourth of said four interlinked areas relates to supply status; processing said filtered market business information by a subscoring process, wherein the subscoring process includes comparing values of a number of parameters with corresponding benchmark values provided by a knowledge database and assigning to each parameter a subscore; and processing the results of said subscoring process by a scoring process to provide a score corresponding to an assessment for an investment decision, wherein the scoring process includes calculating a score based on said determined subscores and a predetermined dependency matrix providing dependencies between predefined determinants and a predetermined preference matrix providing multiplicators used for weighting said determined subscores, and wherein said four interlnked areas comprise twelve determinants, each determinant having an associated score, and wherein the determinants of said first interlinked area comprise market position, financial position and HY bond features, wherein the determinants of said second area comprise fundamental condition, technical condition and political condition, wherein the determinants of said third area comprise investor's appetite, demand competition and demand substitutes, and wherein the determinants of said fourth area comprise supply substitutes, supply competition and investment banks and wherein each determinant is evaluated using a radar scheme where each determinant is represented by one dimension of said radar scheme, said radar scheme consisting of a radar-type coordinate system, comprising a multitude of dimensions, each dimension relating to one of said determinants, and wherein a recommendation for an investment decision is provided based on the associated score.