A known charge card billing system communicates with an investment broker
system, wherein the investment broker system includes an instruction
arrangement database, payment hierarchy and an investment account. An
interested cardholder suitably appoints the charge card administrator as
a processing agent to collect and promptly remit the cardholder's
voluntary, periodic payments for investment into preselected investment
products, such as, for example, mutual fund shares, fixed annuities,
variable annuities, CDs, insurance, certificates, equities and/or the
like. The billing system distributes a billing statement at the end of
each month, wherein the statement includes all of the charges for that
month and a reminder to remit an additional dollar amount for the
preselected investments. The cardholder then sends a single payment for
the charges and the investments to the charge card administrator. After
receiving the payment, the system appropriately unbundles the payment and
distributes the remitted payment to the card account to satisfy the
captured financial events and to the investment broker system for the
purchase of investment products.