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Fund Name Fund Type Net Asset Value ($) 5 Year Average Return (%) Expense Ratio (%) Morningstar Rank (Stars) Fidelity Sh-Term Bond FI 8.60 2.76

Fund Name Fund Type Net Asset Value ($) 5 Year Average Return (%) Expense Ratio (%) Morningstar Rank (Stars)
Fidelity Sh-Term Bond FI 8.60 2.76 0.45 3
Vanguard GNMA FI 10.37 4.25 0.21 5
Managers Freemont Bond FI 10.56 5.14 0.60 5
PIMCO Emerg Mkts Bd D FI 10.68 13.57 1.25 3
American Century Tax-Free Bond FI 10.73 3.34 0.49 4
FPA New Income FI 10.95 4.63 0.62 3
USAA Income FI 12.10 4.31 0.62 3
Dodge & Cox Income FI 12.51 4.31 0.44 4
Fidelity Municipal Income FI 12.58 4.41 0.45 5
DFA U.S. Micro Cap DE 13.47 17.23 0.53 3
American Century Intl. Disc IE 14.37 30.53 1.41 3
Buffalo Mid Cap DE 15.29 17.25 1.02 3
Kalmar Gr Val Sm Cp DE 15.30 15.31 1.32 3
Vanguard Sht-Tm TE FI 15.68 2.37 0.16 3
Artisan Small Cap DE 16.92 15.67 1.18 3
Marsico 21st Century DE 17.44 15.16 1.31 5
T. Rowe Price Mid Val DE 22.46 16.91 0.80 4
Greenspring DE 23.59 12.46 1.07 3
Vanguard Global Equity IE 23.71 21.77 0.64 5
Templeton Growth A IE 24.07 15.91 1.01 3
Delafield DE 24.32 17.77 1.32 4
Vanguard Equity-Inc DE 24.42 13.41 0.29 4
American Century Ultra DE 24.94 10.88 0.99 3
Artisan Intl Val IE 25.52 24.95 1.23 3
RS Value A DE 26.27 23.68 1.36 4
Mathews Pacific Tiger IE 27.86 32.70 1.16 3
Amer Cent Inc & Growth Inv DE 28.88 12.39 0.67 2
Fairholme DE 31.86 18.23 1.00 5
Meridan Value DE 31.92 15.33 1.08 4
Janus DE 32.26 12.81 0.90 3
Vanguard Sm Cp Idx DE 32.58 17.01 0.23 3
Wasatch Sm Cp Growth DE 35.41 13.98 1.19 4
Brown Cap Small DE 35.73 15.85 1.20 4
Brandywine DE 36.58 18.14 1.08 4
Thornburg Value A DE 37.53 15.46 1.27 4
Fidelity DE 39.85 14.40 0.56 4
Oakmark I DE 40.37 9.51 1.05 2
Fidelity Sel Electronics DE 45.60 13.50 0.89 3
Ariel DE 46.39 11.32 1.03 2
Fidelity Overseas IE 48.39 23.46 0.90 4
Gabelli Asset AAA DE 49.81 16.70 1.36 4
Baron Asset DE 50.67 16.77 1.31 5
T. Rowe Price Latin Am. IE 53.89 51.10 1.24 4
Janus Worldwide IE 54.83 12.31 0.86 2
Fidelity Contrafund DE 73.11 17.99 0.89 5

Question 1 (2.5 points)

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Use MutualFunds excel file for this problem.

Match the numbers below with the descriptive statistics of "Net Asset Value" variable in the "MutualFunds" file.

Question 1 options:

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15.05

12345

0.82

12345

28.01

12345

24.94

1.

Mean

2.

Median

3.

Mode

4.

Standard Deviation

5.

Skewness

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Question 2 (2.5 points)

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Use the "MutualFunds" excel file.

What is the mean of the "5 Year Average Return" across domestic equity (DE) mutual funds in percentage points?

Question 2 options:

a)

15.04

b)

15.37

c)

26.59

d)

4.91

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Question 3 (2.5 points)

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Use the "MutualFunds" excel file.

What is the average of "5 Year Average Return" across international equity (IE) mutual funds in percentage points?

Question 3 options:

15.04

15.37

26.59

27.03

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Question 4 (2.5 points)

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Use the "MutualFunds" excel file.

What is the average of "5 Year Average Return" across fixed income (FI) mutual funds in percentage points?

Question 4 options:

15.04

4.91

4.83

4.55

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Question 5 (2.5 points)

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Use the "MutualFunds" excel file.

Which Mutual Fund type has the highest average Morningstar Rank?

(Please write IE, DE or FI as your answer)

Question 5 options:

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Question 6 (2.5 points)

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Use the "MutualFunds" excel file.

What is the maximum expense ratio percentage that a domestic equity fund charges to its clients?

(Do not include the percentage sign (%) in your answer, round to two decimal points, for example 1.11)

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Question 7 (2.5 points)

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Use the "MutualFunds" excel file.

What is the average net asset value of international equity funds in the sample.

(Do not include the dollar sign in your answer, round to two decimal points, for example 11.11)

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Question 8 (2.5 points)

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Use the "MutualFunds" excel file. What is the correlation coefficient between net asset value and 5 year average return of all mutual funds?

Question 8 options:

a)

0.56

b)

0.06

c)

0.48

d)

0.42

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Question 9 (2.5 points)

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Use the FDICBankFailures file, which contains data on failures of federally insured banks between 2000 and 2012, to discover which Nevada (NV) city had the greatest number of bank closings during the whole sample period.

Question 9 options:

a)

Carson City

b)

Elko

c)

Las Vegas

d)

Reno

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Question 10 (2.5 points)

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The Net Asset Value variable in the Mutual Funds excel worksheet is a good candidate for the Empirical Rule. (Build a histogram to find the answer to this question!)

Question 10 options:

True
False

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