In a particular year, Hoosier Mutual Fund earned a return of 1% by making the following investments in asset classes:     Weight Return Bonds 20 % 5 % Stocks 80 % 0 %   The return on a bogey portfolio was 2%, calculated from the following information.     Weight Return Bonds (Lehman Brothers Index) 50 % 5 % Stocks (S&P 500 Index) 50 % -1 %   The contribution of asset allocation across markets to the Hoosier Fund's total abnormal return was

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

In a recent 5-year period, mutual fund manager Diana Sauros produced the following percentage rates of return for the Mesozoic Fund. Rates of return on the market index are given for comparison. Fund Market index a. 1 -1.2 -0.9 b. 2 +24.8 +16.0 a. Calculate (a) the average return on both the Fund and the index, and (b) the standard deviation of the returns on each. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) b. Did Ms. Sauros do better or worse than the market index on these measures? Average return Standard deviation Did Ms. Sauros do better or worse than the market index on these measures? 3 +40.7 +31.7 Mesozoic Fund Return Better 4 +11.1 +10.9 15.06 16.04 Market Portfolio Return 5 +0.3 -0.7 10.70 11.76

A hedge fund with $25 million of assets under management has a standard 2/20 fee structure and earns 14 percent this year. Assume that management fees are paid at the beginning of each year and performance fees are paid at the end of each year. Assume that the fund’s fee structure also contains a high-water mark provision. What is the management fee collected by the fund managers? What is the performance fee collected by the    fund managers? What is the investor’s net return?

A hedge fund charges a management fee of 3 percent and an incentive fee of 25 percent for all returns over a benchmark return of 4%. The risk-free rate is 2% and the standard deviation of the funds continuously compounded returns has been 23%. The current net asset value is $55 per share. What is the value of all fees expressed as a percent at the start of the investment period?

Required: A hedge fund with $0.7 billion of assets charges a management fee of 3% and an incentive fee of 20% of returns over a money market rate, which currently is 6%. Calculate total fees, both in dollars and as a percent of assets under management, for portfolio returns of: (Enter your answers in millions rounded to 1 decimal place.) Required: A hedge fund with $0.7 billion of assets charges a management fee of 3% and an incentive fee of 20% of retums over a money market rate, which currently is 6%. Calculate total fees, both in dollars and as a percent of assets under management, for portfolio returns of: (Enter your answers in millions rounded to 1 decimal place.) Required: A hedge fund with $0.7 billion of assets charges a management fee of 3% and an incentive fee of 20% of returns over a money market rate, which currently is 6%. Calculate total fees, both in dollars and as a percent of assets under management, for portfolio returns of: (Enter your answers in millions rounded to…

Investing: Inverse ETFS (Exchange Traded Funds) Inverse ETFS, sometimes referred to as "bear market" or "short" funds, are designed to deliver the opposite of the performance of the index or category they track, and so can be used by traders to bet against the stock market. The following table shows the performance of three such funds as of August 5, 2015.t Year-to-Date Loss (%) MYY (ProShares Short Midcap 400) SH (ProShares Short S&P 500) REW (ProShares UltraShort Technology) 7 You invested a total of $12,000 in the three funds at the beginning of 2011, including an egual amount in SH and REW. Your year-to-date loss from the first two funds amounted to $510. How much did you invest in each of the three funds? MYY $ SH 2$ REW $