Patent №
US 8,024,246
Granted
2011-09-20
Filed 2003
Owner
MERRILL LYNCH AND CO., INC.
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Lab
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AI components
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planning
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
10481857
A family of hedge funds, serving as “feeder funds” into underlying single-manager hedge funds, formed to provide smaller investors with the ability to allocate and reallocate assets among alternative strategies, and this basic structure combining interrelated systems and methods for offering, redeeming, exchanging, valuing, reporting and servicing the same is a new approach. The system and methods described herein provide investors having less than ultra-high net worth portfolios with access to hedge funds and the potential valuable diversification to an overall portfolio, and the ability to customize their portfolio of hedge funds to their individual needs and adjust such portfolio over time as seen fit in light of changing financial needs and market conditions. This invention gives a wide range of investors access to hedge funds, creating economic value using a new source of stable investor capital for hedge fund managers, a value shared with investors through reduced costs.
AI classification
Ownership
MERRILL LYNCH AND CO., INC.
assignment · 152490468
BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
assignment · 248600985
Assignors
ROSENBERG, RONALD SCOTT, ALDERMAN, ROBERT MICHAEL, BAUMGARTEN, STEVEN NEIL, BRENNAN, PAUL JOSEPH, CHANDOR, JEFFREY FRAZER, CLINTON, WINSTON LLEWELLYN, SR., LARSEN, LANCE DANIEL, MILLER, STEPHEN MICHAEL MULFORD, OLGIN, STEVEN BRUCE, PUNGELLO, MICHAEL LOUIS, SALVI-CHIARA, LYNDA MARIE, SETTE, GRACE THERESA, +6 more
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