INTERNET-BASED SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFICATION, MEASUREMENT AND RANKING OF INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT, AND OPERATION OF A FUND SUPERMARKET, INCLUDING 'BEST INVESTOR' MANAGED FUNDS

摘要

Internet-based business system and management programs therefor, and moreparticularly to financial investment management characterized by a uniquesystem of attracting and identifying the Best Investors, including offering,facilitating and managing performance-based investment competitions based onmodel (virtual) investment portfolios (28), creating actual portfolios for theidentified Best Investor, creating and operating actual mutual funds based onthe identified Best Investors as fund managers, and providing a full suite ofrelated subscriber and investor services associated therewith as a fundsupermarket (48). The invention includes facilitation of daily feedback of oneor more significant and appropriate financial performance metric(s),preferably the NAV (iTAV), of identified stocks and funds (36). Performanceranking of advice is provided so that the investor knows the track record(randing) (44), on an ongoing basis, of a particular advisor, therebyestablishing credibility of comments. Important analytic tools are provided,including unique reports on: Overall Performance, Stratification, Volatility,Market Timing, Fundamentals, and G or G Ratio, which function as powerfuldecision tools for the site members, fund managers and subscribers (46). Thetop 100 Best Investors are recognized as the m100, which may be a list, atracked index, and a Fund.