A local university offers its employees the following Fidelity investment products for their retirement plans: Fidelity
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A local university offers its employees the following Fidelity investment products for their retirement plans:
• Fidelity Total Bond Fund
• Fidelity Short-Term Bond Fund
• Fidelity Magellan Fund
• Fidelity International Small Cap Fund
• Fidelity Freedom Income Fund
After working at the university for a year, Minori Vardan is now eligible to participate in the retirement plan. She has already decided to invest a portion of her retirement funds in the Magellan fund. She would like to choose one other fund that has the smallest correlation, preferably zero, with the Magellan fund. She collects 5 years of monthly return data for each mutual fund, a portion of which is shown in the accompanying table.
In a report, use the sample information to: 1. Calculate and interpret the sample correlation coefficient of each fund with Magellan. 2. Discuss the statistical significance of the correlation coefficients. 3. Make an investment recommendation for Minori.
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Total Short-Term Int'l Small Freedom Bond Magellan Bond 0.0013 0.0027- Cap 0.0904 Income January 2006 0.04770.0 February 2006-0.0149 0.0107 0.0152 0.0000 December 2010 0.05860.0183 .0035 0.0478 0.0036
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