PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Manoj Athavale AU - Eugene Bland TI - Prioritizing Investment Screens in a Multiple-Criteria Framework AID - 10.3905/joi.2004.450756 DP - 2004 Nov 30 TA - The Journal of Investing PG - 49--52 VI - 13 IP - 4 4099 - https://pm-research.com/content/13/4/49.short 4100 - https://pm-research.com/content/13/4/49.full AB - Investment professionals often screen the investment universe for investment opportunities that meet some benchmark criteria. This screening process provides a subset of acceptable investment opportunities that are not all equally acceptable. A technique that allows prioritization of the subset on the basis of deviations from the benchmark criteria used to obtain it is an adaptation of the Taguchi loss function, which has found application in the management, marketing, accounting, and real estate literature.