A closed-end fund starts the year with a net asset value of $11.00. By year-end, NAV equals $11.90. At the beginning of the year, the fund was selling at a 1.5% premium to NAV. By the end of the year, the fund is selling at a 7.5% discount from NAV. The fund paid year- end distributions of income and capital gains of $1.20. a. What is the rate of return to an investor in the fund during the year? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Rate of return % b. What would have been the rate of return to an investor who held the same securities as the fund manager during the year? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Rate of return %

Using a discount rate of 5.5% compounded annually, a pension fund estimates that the present value of its assets and liabilities are $7 million and $4 million, respectively. The duration of the assets is 11 years and the duration of the liabilities is 27 years. (a) Suppose that the interest rate decreases to 5.45%. Estimate the relative changes in the fund's assets and liabilities. Express yours answers as percentages, to the nearest basis point. Relative Change in Assets % Relative Change in Liabilities % (b) Using your rounded answers from (a), estimate the absolute changes in the fund's assets and liabilities. Express your answers in millions of dollars, to the nearest thousand. Absolute Change in Assets $ million Absolute Change in Liabilities s $ million (c) The fund's net worth is defined as the difference between its assets and liabilities. Using your answers from (b), estimate the relative change in the fund's net worth. Express your answer as a percent, to the nearest basis…

Suppose an individual invests $20,000 in a load mutual fund for two years. The load fee entails an up-front commission charge of 2.5 percent of the amount invested and is deducted from the original funds invested. In addition, annual fund operating expenses are 0.55 percent. The annual fees are charged on the average net asset value invested in the fund and are recorded at the end of each year. Investments in the fund return 7 percent each year paid on the last day of the year. If the investor reinvests the annual returns paid on the investment, calculate the annual return on the mutual funds over the two-year investment period.   Select one:   a. 3.77%   b. 5.09%   c. 7.54%   d. 8.86%   e. 10.18%

Canary Company invested this year's profits of $73,800.00 in a fund that matured to $167,895.17 in 9 years. What nominal interest rate compounded quarterly is this investment earning? % Round to two decimal places

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Fund A is invested at an effective annual interest rate of 5%. Fund B is invested at an effective annual interest rate of 4%. At the end of 10 years, the total of the two funds is 10,000. At the end of 15 years, the amount in fund A is triple the amount in fund B. Calculate the total of the two funds at the end of 20 years.

Franklin's investment fund had a balance of $280,000 on January 1, 1995 and a balance of $448,000 two years later. The amount of interest earned during the two years was $34,000, and the annual yield rate on the fund was 5.3%. Estimate the (dollar-weighted) average date of contributions to the account. (Round your answer to the nearest integer.) The average date of payment is 168 x days after January 1, 1995.

A company deposited $5,500 into an investment fund at the beginning of every quarter for 6 years. It then stopped making deposits into the fund and allowed the investment to grow for 6 more years. The fund was growing at 5.25% compounded monthly. a. What was the accumulated value of the fund at the end of 6 years? Round to the nearest cent b. What was the accumulated value of the fund at the end of 12 years? Round to the nearest cent c. What was the amount of interest earned over the 12-year period? Round to the nearest cent

A closed-end fund starts the year with a net asset value of $12. By year-end, NAV equals $12.10. At the beginning of the year, the fund is selling at a 2% premium to NAV. By the end of the year, the fund is selling at a 7% discount to NAV. The fund paid year-end distributions of income and capital gains of $1.50. Required: a. What is the rate of return to an investor in the fund during the year? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Rate of return % b. What would have been the rate of return to an investor who held the same securities as the fund manager during the year? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Rate of return %

At the beginning of the year, an investment fund was established with an initial deposit of 500 . A deposit 1000 is made at the end of each month for the first six months. Starting from theend of month 7, a withdrawal of 300 is made at the end of each month for 5 months for a total of 5 withdrawals. The amount in the fund at the end of the year is 12,500. Calculate the dollar-weighted(money-weighted) yield rate earned by the fund during the year.