You purchased shares of a mutual fund at a price of \$12 per share at the beginning of the year and paid a front-end load of 4.75%. If the securities in which the fund invested increased in value by 9% during the year, and the fund's expense ratio was 1.5%, your return if you sold the fund at the end of the year would be_____%.

A mutual fund had NAV per share of \$19.00 on January 1, 2009. On December 31 of the same year the fund's NAV was \$19.14. Income distributions were \$0.57 and the fund had capital gain distributions of \$1.12. Without considering taxes and transactions costs, what rate of return did an investor receive on the fund last year?

Assume that you purchased shares of a mutual fund at a net asset value of \$14.50 per share. During the year you received dividend income distributions of \$0.27 per share and capital gains distributions of \$0.65 per share. At the end of the year the shares had a net asset value of \$13.74 per share. What was your rate of return on this investment?

Management fees and other expenses of mutual funds may include?

You sold short 100 shares of common stock at \$45 per share. The initial margin is 50%. At what stock price would you receive a margin call if the maintenance margin is 35%?

You sold short 100 shares of common stock at \$75 per share. The initial margin is 50%. At what stock price would you receive a margin call if the maintenance margin is 30%?

You want to purchase GM stock at \$40 from your broker using as little of your own money as possible. If initial margin is 50% and you have \$4000 to invest, how many shares can you buy?

A mutual fund had NAV per share of \$37.12 on January 1, 2009. On December 31 of the same year the fund's rate of return for the year was 11.0%. Income distributions were \$2.26 and the fund had capital gain distributions of \$1.64. Without considering taxes and transactions costs, what ending NAV would you calculate?