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 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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