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Sortino-chat is a Generative AI program designed to provide another perspective on investment decisions. My Avatar will answer your investment questions but will not give investment advice on what to buy, when to buy or where to buy. You will be asked to get a password so you can easily sign in again. We will not give your personal information to anyone for any reason. We will soon be able to offer our proprietary software to calculate your Desired target Return (DTR) and the upside potential ratio, using a 3 parameter lognormal distribution instead of a bell shaped curve to describe uncertainty.

To test my new Chatbot, click here, Soopra. You will be asked to create an account to use the chat features. Cursor down to CHAT. Click in the Chat block and enter your question. then click on the send arrow. A Circle will spin around my picture. When it stops, read the chatbot response to your question. When you finish with Chat inputs, Click on the Voice Icon. It will say, Speak. Speak your question. Click Icon again and my Avatar will search for the answer. Give it a few seconds, then press again to hear the answer. You will hear my Avatar answer in my voice. The Chat inputs produce more detailed answers than the Voice inputs.

Please use both Chat and Voice inputs. I will see your questions and the chatbot’s answers. I can then edit the answer to improve it, if necessary. That way my chatbot will get better and better as I can address questions I would never have thought of. In this way, I hope to make an improvement in the way investors make decisions. I encourage you to tell me if you disagree with my beliefs. What you disagree with may be important for you and me to hear. In this way, we can both become more knowledgeable. I look forward to hearing what you have to say about your experience.

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About Frank Sortino

Frank Sortino is finance professor emeritus from San Francisco State University and Director of the Pension Research Institute which he founded in 1981. For 10 years he wrote a quarterly analysis of mutual funds for Pensions and Investments Magazine and he has written two books on the subject of Post Modern Portfolio Theory. He has been a featured speaker at many conferences in the U.S., Europe, South Africa, and the Pacific Basin. Dr. Sortino received his Ph.D in Finance from the University of Oregon and has carried out research projects with many institutions like Shell Oil, Netherlands and The City and County of San Francisco Retirement System.

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