Title :
FundExplorer: supporting the diversification of mutual fund portfolios using context treemaps
Author :
Csallner, Christoph ; Handte, Marcus ; Lehmann, Othmar ; Stasko, John
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Comput., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
An equity mutual fund is a financial instrument that invests in a set of stocks. Any two different funds may partially invest in some of the same stocks, thus overlap is common. Portfolio diversification aims at spreading an investment over many different stocks in search of greater returns. Helping people with portfolio diversification is challenging because it requires informing them about both their current portfolio of stocks held through funds and the other stocks in the market not invested in yet. Current stock/fund visualization systems either waste screen real estate and visualization of all data points. We have developed a system called FundExplorer that implements a distorted treemap to visualize both the amount of money invested in a person´s fund portfolio and the context of remaining market stocks. The FundExplorer system enables people to interactively explore diversification possibilities with their portfolios.
Keywords :
data visualisation; financial data processing; investment; stock markets; tree data structures; FundExplorer; context treemaps; distorted treemap; diversification support; equity mutual fund; financial data; financial instrument; fund visualization systems; information visualization; investment visualization; mutual fund portfolios; portfolio diversification; stock market; stock visualization systems; stocks investment; Chromium; Data visualization; Educational institutions; Financial management; Information systems; Instruments; Investments; Mutual funds; Portfolios; Stock markets;
Conference_Titel :
Information Visualization, 2003. INFOVIS 2003. IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8154-8
DOI :
10.1109/INFVIS.2003.1249027
