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A local security offers its employees the following investment products for their retirement plans: Total Bond Fund (T) Short-Term Bond Fund (ST) Magellan Fund (M)
A local security offers its employees the following investment products for their retirement plans: |
Total Bond Fund (T) | |
Short-Term Bond Fund (ST) | |
Magellan Fund (M) | |
International Small Cap Fund (I) | |
Freedom Income Fund (F) | |
After working at the security company for a year, Chuck Bartowski is now eligible to participate in the retirement plan. He has already decided to invest a portion of his retirement funds in the Magellan fund. He would like to choose one other fund that has the smallest correlation, preferably zero, with the Magellan fund. He collects 5 years of monthly return data for each mutual fund. |
Date | Magellan | Total Bond | Short-term Bond | International Small Cap | Freedom |
1/3/2006 | 0.0477 | 0.0026 | 0.0013 | 0.0904 | 0.0107 |
2/1/2006 | -0.0149 | 0.0026 | 0.0027 | -0.0152 | 0.0000 |
3/1/2006 | 0.0267 | -0.0066 | 0.0013 | 0.0549 | 0.0032 |
4/3/2006 | 0.0192 | 0.0000 | 0.0027 | 0.0646 | 0.0032 |
5/1/2006 | -0.0488 | -0.0013 | 0.0013 | -0.0778 | -0.0063 |
6/1/2006 | -0.0073 | 0.0013 | 0.0027 | -0.0350 | 0.0000 |
7/3/2006 | -0.0313 | 0.0145 | 0.0066 | -0.0133 | 0.0053 |
8/1/2006 | 0.0240 | 0.0143 | 0.0092 | 0.0140 | 0.0116 |
9/1/2006 | 0.0112 | 0.0090 | 0.0052 | -0.0261 | 0.0094 |
10/2/2006 | 0.0292 | 0.0064 | 0.0039 | 0.0290 | 0.0124 |
11/1/2006 | 0.0260 | 0.0114 | 0.0065 | 0.0282 | 0.0122 |
12/1/2006 | -0.0054 | -0.0038 | 0.0013 | 0.0305 | 0.0000 |
1/3/2007 | 0.0288 | 0.0000 | 0.0026 | 0.0125 | 0.0071 |
2/1/2007 | -0.0166 | 0.0151 | 0.0051 | 0.0129 | 0.0040 |
3/1/2007 | 0.0082 | 0.0000 | 0.0038 | 0.0333 | 0.0050 |
4/2/2007 | 0.0482 | 0.0049 | 0.0038 | 0.0469 | 0.0139 |
5/1/2007 | 0.0407 | -0.0074 | -0.0013 | 0.0353 | 0.0068 |
6/1/2007 | -0.0042 | -0.0037 | 0.0000 | 0.0319 | -0.0039 |
7/2/2007 | -0.0183 | 0.0025 | 0.0013 | 0.0106 | -0.0049 |
8/1/2007 | 0.0115 | 0.0050 | -0.0088 | -0.0729 | 0.0020 |
9/4/2007 | 0.0621 | 0.0086 | 0.0089 | 0.0606 | 0.0157 |
10/1/2007 | 0.0533 | 0.0024 | -0.0038 | 0.0712 | 0.0087 |
11/1/2007 | -0.0379 | 0.0110 | 0.0025 | -0.0768 | -0.0086 |
12/3/2007 | 0.0035 | 0.0036 | 0.0025 | -0.0276 | 0.0019 |
1/2/2008 | -0.0896 | 0.0120 | 0.0063 | -0.0939 | -0.0058 |
2/1/2008 | -0.0160 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0421 | -0.0039 |
3/3/2008 | -0.0219 | -0.0036 | -0.0163 | -0.0244 | -0.0078 |
4/1/2008 | 0.0651 | 0.0012 | -0.0051 | 0.0327 | 0.0147 |
5/1/2008 | 0.0306 | -0.0036 | 0.0038 | 0.0498 | 0.0039 |
6/2/2008 | -0.0837 | -0.0012 | 0.0013 | -0.0634 | -0.0154 |
7/1/2008 | -0.0394 | -0.0036 | 0.0013 | -0.0649 | -0.0068 |
8/1/2008 | -0.0008 | 0.0060 | 0.0013 | -0.0557 | 0.0029 |
9/2/2008 | -0.1796 | -0.0323 | -0.0064 | -0.1599 | -0.0353 |
10/1/2008 | -0.2161 | -0.0556 | -0.0115 | -0.2497 | -0.0650 |
11/3/2008 | -0.1133 | -0.0092 | -0.0181 | -0.0460 | -0.0261 |
12/1/2008 | 0.0489 | 0.0356 | 0.0040 | 0.0758 | 0.0190 |
1/2/2009 | -0.0754 | 0.0153 | 0.0039 | -0.0680 | -0.0142 |
2/2/2009 | -0.0758 | -0.0063 | -0.0026 | -0.0712 | -0.0255 |
3/2/2009 | 0.1389 | 0.0139 | 0.0039 | 0.0374 | 0.0251 |
4/1/2009 | 0.1369 | 0.0286 | 0.0078 | 0.1228 | 0.0356 |
5/1/2009 | 0.0622 | 0.0315 | 0.0117 | 0.1768 | 0.0290 |
6/1/2009 | -0.0137 | 0.0153 | 0.0064 | 0.0231 | 0.0083 |
7/1/2009 | 0.0876 | 0.0324 | 0.0102 | 0.0738 | 0.0321 |
8/3/2009 | 0.0216 | 0.0134 | 0.0101 | 0.0445 | 0.0170 |
9/1/2009 | 0.0531 | 0.0199 | 0.0087 | 0.0548 | 0.0217 |
10/1/2009 | -0.0543 | 0.0108 | 0.0074 | -0.0139 | -0.0019 |
11/2/2009 | 0.0545 | 0.0118 | 0.0074 | 0.0205 | 0.0193 |
12/1/2009 | 0.0436 | -0.0042 | -0.0037 | 0.0069 | 0.0057 |
1/4/2010 | -0.0438 | 0.0170 | 0.0086 | -0.0211 | -0.0019 |
2/1/2010 | 0.0301 | 0.0031 | 0.0036 | -0.0035 | 0.0085 |
3/1/2010 | 0.0662 | 0.0052 | 0.0000 | 0.0613 | 0.0159 |
4/1/2010 | 0.0151 | 0.0799 | 0.0036 | 0.0193 | 0.0101 |
5/3/2010 | -0.0811 | 0.0000 | 0.0012 | -0.1080 | -0.0192 |
6/1/2010 | -0.0647 | 0.0134 | 0.0060 | -0.0006 | -0.0047 |
7/1/2010 | 0.0506 | 0.0142 | 0.0048 | 0.0745 | 0.0206 |
8/2/2010 | -0.0592 | 0.0121 | 0.0048 | -0.0180 | -0.0055 |
9/1/2010 | 0.1083 | 0.0065 | 0.0036 | 0.1326 | 0.0249 |
10/1/2010 | 0.0361 | 0.0083 | 0.0035 | 0.0471 | 0.0144 |
11/1/2010 | 0.0136 | -0.0064 | -0.0024 | -0.0179 | -0.0044 |
12/1/2010 | 0.0586 | -0.0183 | -0.0035 | 0.0478 | 0.0036 |
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