Investor Matt has $661,000 to invest in a CD and a mutual fund. The CD yields 7.3% and the mutual fund yields an average of 7.7%. The mutual fund requires a minimum investment of $20,000, and Matt requires that at least 4 times as much money be invested in the CD as in the mutual fund. You must invest in order to maximize his return. What is the maximum return? Enter 0 if no investment can be made satisfying the requirements.   $ . Round to the nearest cen

Consider a no-load mutual fund with $325 million in assets and 13 million shares at the start of the year and with $375 million in assets and 14 million shares at the end of the year. During the year investors have received income distributions of $3 per share and capital gain distributions of $0.20 per share. Assuming that the fund carries no debt, and that the total expense ratio is 2%, what is the rate of return on the fund? Multiple Choice 16.95% 17.80% 26.45% The answer cannot be determined from the information given.

Suppose you own a mutual fund which has 13,000,000 shares outstanding. If its total assets are $36,000,0000 and its liabilities are $5,000,000, find the net asset value (in $) of the fund. Round to the nearest cent. 2$ Need Help? Read It Watch It Master It

Your friend never took a personal finance class, but found out you did. So he comes to you for advice. He has two funds offered through his employer. One is a high growth mutual fund with 10% growth. The other is a moderate growth index fund offering 7% growth. At first glance it seems like an obvious choice, but the mutual fund is taking a 2.7 % fee of your friends $500 deposit, while the index fund is taking only a 0.7% fee. Over his 40 year career, what is the future value of the high growth fund after accounting for the fee? I A) $142,832.61 B $1,514,331,61 C) $1,028,330.61 D $1,428,328.61 E $428,332.61

An investor has $80,000 to invest in Certificates of Deposit (CD) and a mutual fund. The CD yields 7% and the mutual fund yields 8%. The mutual fund requires a minimum investment of $8,000 and the investor requires at least twice as much should be invested in CDs as in the mutual fund. How much should be invested in each to maximize the return? What is the maximum return? Show your work and explanations setting this problem up. Variables should clearly be defined. Show all your work.

Consider a mutual fund that manages a portfolio of securities worth $120 million.Suppose  the fund owes $4 million to its investment advisers and owes another $1million for rent, wages due, and miscellaneous expenses.The fund has 5 million shareholders.What is the Net Asset Value?

1. What are some comparative advantages of investing in the following? a)  Unit investment trusts. b)  Open-end mutual funds. c)  Individual stocks and bonds that you choose for yourself. 2. You are considering two alternative two-year investments: You can invest in a risky asset with a positive risk premium and returns in each of the two years that will be identically distributed and uncorrelated, or you can invest in the risky asset for only one year and then invest the proceeds in a risk-free asset. Which of the following statements about the first investment alternative (compared with the second) are true? a) Its two-year risk premium is the same as the second alternative. b) c) d) e) The standard deviation of its two-year return is the same.Its annualized standard deviation is lower.Its Sharpe ratio is higher.It is relatively more attractive to investors who have lower degrees of risk aversion. 3. Tabulate and draw the investment opportunity set of the two…

You are considering investing in a mutual fund. The fund is expected to earn a return of 13 percent in the next year. If its annual return is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 17 percent, what return can you expect the fund to beat 95 percent of the time? (Note: Write your answer as decimals with three decimal places. For example, if you answer is -8.7%, you should write -0.087 in the answer box. DO NOT write -8.7 in the box as you will be marked wrong).

4. Suppose a (very skilled) fund manager earns a safe return of 0.7% pertrading day. There are 252 trading days per year. (a) What will be your annualized holding period return on $100 invested in the fundif the manager allows you to reinvest in her fund the 0.7% you earn each day? (b) What will be your annualized holding period return assuming the manager putsall of your daily earnings into a zero-interest-bearing checking account and paysyou everything earned at the end of the year?