In a recent 5- year period, mutual funds manager Diana Saurus produced the following percentage rates of return for the Mesozioc funds. Rates of return on the market index are given for comparison.

1 2 3 4 5

Funds -1.2 +23.4 +41.3 +10.3 +0.3

Market index -0.8 +15.0 +30.8 +11.60 -0.6

A. Calculate (a) the average return on both the fund and the index, and (b) the standard deviation of the return on each.

B. Did Ms. Sauros do better or worse than the marketindex on these measures???

Mesozoic Fund Return Market Portfolio return

a. Average return

Standard deviation

b. Did Ms. Sauros do better or worse that the market index on the measures??