Patent ID: 8595110

Claim:
An investment management computer system in electronic communication with at least one of a data vendor or an electronic accounting system, the investment management computer system comprising: an electronic application server, the application server having logic configured to perform at least the following electronically: portfolio analysis of an investment portfolio, wherein the portfolio analysis includes aggregating a plurality of securities in the investment portfolio by security type; portfolio monitoring of the investment portfolio; reporting at least one holding of the investment portfolio; calculating one or more performance metrics related to at least one holding of the investment portfolio; an electronic database server in communication with the application server, the database server having at least one associated electronic database; and, wherein the application server further includes data load logic configured to perform the following electronically on a periodic basis in association with at least one of the databases associated with the database server: receiving data into the database server database from at least one of the accounting system or a data vendor data source, wherein the received data includes a completely refreshed data set or an incrementally refreshed data set; validating the received data to promote a complete transmission and to promote a correct as-of-date transmission for the received data; and updating the data stored in the database server database with the received data.