Question: Fund Name Fund Type Net Asset Value ($) 5 Year Average Return (%) Expense Ratio (%) Morningstar Rank Amer Cent Inc & Growth Inv DE

 Fund Name Fund Type Net Asset Value ($) 5 Year AverageReturn (%) Expense Ratio (%) Morningstar Rank Amer Cent Inc & Growth

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

1. Use the We le Mutual Funds. Described better in Ch. 2 exercise #32.) This is a dataset ebfi for a sample of mutual funds. There are three types of mutual funds with data on net asset value, expense ratios, average returns and other variables. You will be doing Pivot Tables for some of the questions below. Fund Type: DE domestic equity, IE international equity, FI fixed income Net Asset Value Equity per share Expense Ratio percentage of assets deducted to fund expenses a. What is the number of observations and the number of variables? b. Which variables are: i. Continuous Ordinal iii. Categorical c- Prepare a Pie Chart of the Fund Type. d. Fund Type and Expense Ratio i. Prepare a cross tabulation of Fund Type ows) and Expense Ratio (columns. Use intervals of half a percentage point. (Group Settings: min 0.25, max 1.492 by 0.500. ii. Prepare a Stacked Bar Chart of Fund Type orizontal axis category) and Expense Ratio (stacked categories). iii. Which Fund Type spends the most? e. An interesting question is whether funds that spend more perform better (t e. produce higher returns) i. Do a Scatter Plot of Expense Ratio (vertical axis and 5-Year Average Return (horizontal axis). i. Add a fitted line to the scatter plot. iii. Comment on the relationship from the graph above. Specifically, do better performing funds spend more? iv. Calculate the correlation coefficient between Expense Ratio and Average Returns. Interpret the result. In particular, what does it say about whether better performing funds spend more? Comment on the strength and sign of the correlation coefficient

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