Problem 1

You purchased 1,000 shares of the New Fund at a price of $20 per share at the beginning of the year. You paid a front-end load of 4.25%. The securities in which the fund invests increase in value by 16.75% during the year. The fund's expense ratio is 1.20%. What is your rate of return on the fund if you sell your shares at the end of the year?

Problem 2 The stock of Business Adventures sells for $40 a share. Its likely dividend payout and end-of-year price depend on the state of the economy by the end of the year as follows:

	Dividend	Stock Price
Boom	$2.50	$50
Normal economy	$1.00	$43
Recession	$0.75	$34

Calculate the expected holding-period return and standard deviation of the holding-period return. All three scenarios are equally likely.