TY - JOUR T1 - Prioritizing Investment Screens in a Multiple-Criteria Framework JF - The Journal of Investing SP - 49 LP - 52 DO - 10.3905/joi.2004.450756 VL - 13 IS - 4 AU - Manoj Athavale AU - Eugene Bland Y1 - 2004/11/30 UR - https://pm-research.com/content/13/4/49.abstract N2 - 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. ER -