A mutual fund has 1,774 shares of General Electric, currently trading at $22, and 1,581 shares of Microsoft, Inc., currently trading at $55. The fund has 1,761 shares outstanding. If investors expect the price of General Electric to increase by $10 and the price of Microsoft to decline by $5 by the end of the year, what is the expected NAV at the end of the year? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))

You are considering investing in a mutual fund. The fund is expected to earn a return of 19.0 percent in the next year. If its annual return is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 10.3 percent, what return can you expect the fund to beat 95 percent of the time?

The following table shows the average returns for some of the largest mutual funds commonly found in retirement plans. (Assume end-of-month deposits and withdrawals and monthly compounding, and assume that the quoted rate of return continues indefinitely.) Mutual Fund Fidelity Growth Company Vanguard 500 Index PIMCO Total Return Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Rate of Return 14.83% 14.25% 3.77% 3.67% Stock fund Stock fund Type Bond fund Bond fund How much should you pay each month into a retirement account invested in the Vanguard bond fund if you wish to retire in 35 years with an investment valued at three million dollars? HINT [See Quick Example 2.] (Round your answer to the nearest cent.) $

A fund manager has been monitoring the performance of Virgin Galactic Corporation shares (NYSE: SPCE). The shares are currently trading at $34.8 on the New York stock exchange. The fund manager predicts that SPEC shares might rise in value over the next few months. He checked the market and found the related information on the options with a maturity of two months as below. Assume the number of underlying shares per contract is 50 shares. (i) Please specify the moneyness of the following options. Are they in the money, at the money or out of the money? Table Attached   (ii) Which option would you suggest the fund manager to purchase? Why?  (iii)How much would it cost if the fund manager purchases options in ii that cover 1,000,000 shares (ii)?

The Closed Fund is a closed-end investment company with a portfolio currently worth $170 million. It has liabilities of $6 million and 9 million shares outstanding. Required: a. What is the NAV of the fund? b. If the fund sells for $20 per share, what is its premium or discount as a percent of net asset value?

The Emerging Growth and Equity Fund is a "low-load" fund. The current offer price quotation for this mutual fund is $21.72, and the front-end load is 1.95 percent. a. What is the NAV? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Net asset value dived b. If there are 18.7 million shares outstanding, what is the current market value of assets owned by the fund? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest whole number.) Market value of assets

The following is part of the computer output from a regression of monthly returns on Waterworks stock against the S&P 500 Index. A hedge fund manager believes that Waterworks is underpriced, with an alpha of 2% over the coming month. Beta 0.75 R-square 0.65 Required: a-1. If he holds a $8.0 million portfolio of Waterworks stock and wishes to hedge market exposure for the next month using one-month maturity S&P 500 futures contracts, how many contracts should he enter? The S&P 500 currently is at 2,000 and the contract multiplier is $50. Number of contracts Standard Deviation of Residuals 0.07 (1.e., 7% monthly) a-2. Should he buy or sell contracts? O Buy Sell Probability b. Assuming that monthly returns are approximately normally distributed, what is the probability that this market-neutral strategy will lose money over the next month? Assume the risk-free rate is 0.7% per month. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your percentage answer to 2 decimal places.) %

A mutual fund has a front-end load of 6%. There is $10,500,000 in assets and $500,000 in outstanding liabilities and one million shares outstanding. Which of the following statements would be true? a) NAVPS would be less than $10 b) NAVPS would be $10 Oc) NAVPS would be greater than $10 d) NAVPS cannot be calculated

Top hedge fund manager Sally Buffit believes that a stock with the same market risk as the S&P 500 will sell at year-end at a price of $50. The stock will pay a dividend at year-end of $2. Assume that risk-free Treasury securities currently offer an interest rate of 2%. Average rates of return on Treasury bills, government bonds, and common stocks, 1900-2017 (figures in percent per year) are as follows. Average Premium (Extra return veraus Treasury bills) () Average Annual Rate of Return Portfolio Treasury billa Treasury bonda Common atocks (%) 3.8 5.3 11.5 1.5 7.7 a. What is the discount rate on the stock? (Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) Discount rate % Prev 1 of 5 Next > search

Your portfolio allocates equal funds to DW Co. and Woodpecker, Inc. DW Co. stock has an annual return mean and standard deviation of 10 percent and 33 percent, respectively. Woodpecker, Inc., stock has an annual return mean and standard deviation of 21 percent and 47 percent, respectively. The return correlation between DW Co. and Woodpecker, Inc., is zero. What is the smallest expected loss for your portfolio in the coming month with a probability of 2.5 percent? (A negative value should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round the z-score value to 3 decimal places when calculating your answer. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) Smallest expected loss %