The survey is a compendium of official survey from around the world and is used by Barclays investment managers as top-down input data for their international asset allocation strategy.

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But SigFig, which will release apps for Android and the iPhone later this month, takes it further, analyzing the data to show your asset allocation and whether you could save on fees by switching to different mutual funds.

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The increased allocation in stocks corresponds with the data we were seeing in our weekly sentiment survey.

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This is accomplished by sophisticated control and manipulation of satellite spot-beams, on-the-fly bandwidth allocation from the satellites, and data compression.

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Collecting and analyzing this data allows you to pragmatically make decisions about asset allocation.

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The basic asset allocation theory that caught on was based on some long-term data and showed the value of blending stocks, bonds and cash.

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Extending the data through November 30, 2010 sustained the trend of outperformance for all three of the aforementioned allocation strategies.

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The argument is that being able to control the data rates for different types of content, choking the pipeline for individual users or at particular times, will allow allocation of bandwidth to more urgent applications.

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