Patent ID: 7231364

Claim:
A method of using a computer to determine an amount of investor money working in an investment vehicle including at least one investor and multiple investments, comprising the steps of: receiving fund management information relating to said investment vehicle; receiving investor information relating to an investor; calculating on said computer, using said fund management information and said investor information, an IPAC to determine the amount of money working in said investment vehicle; and outputting from said computer said IPAC; said step of calculating said IPAC comprising IPAC j = p j * ( a + min ⁡ [ ∑ i = 1 n ⁢ ( r i * c i ) , ∑ i = 1 n ⁢ r i * m i ] ) c t Where c t = a + ∑ i = 1 n ⁢ c i where: n=the total number of investments made by an investment vehicle to date, including investments which have been liquidated such as being paid out in cash or determined to have zero value a=total called investor capital awaiting investment c i =the cost to the find of the i th investment of the n investments m i =the most recent fair value of the i th investment as determined by the fund's manager r i =the percentage of the i th investment of the fund remaining at the time of the most recent distribution p j =the total capital called to date from the j th investor c t (expressed formulaically above)=the total value of called capital awaiting investment plus the aggregate cost of all n fund investments.