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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2006
Ian P. Johnson, Westborough, MA (US);
Stuart Evan Fross, Concord, MA (US);
Ralph Joseph Wolf, Lunenburg, MA (US);
Brian Walters, Holliston, MA (US);
Ian P. Johnson, Westborough, MA (US);
Stuart Evan Fross, Concord, MA (US);
Ralph Joseph Wolf, Lunenburg, MA (US);
Brian Walters, Holliston, MA (US);
FMR LLC, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
Among other things, receiving public information about an actively managed fund, selecting a group of financial assets, determining a group of weights corresponding to the group of financial assets thereby determining a weighted group of financial assets, the weights being determined based only on the public information, and publishing the contents of the weighted group of financial assets, wherein an expected valuation of the weighted group of financial assets is within a threshold percentage of an expected valuation of the actively managed fund.