what are the advantages and disadvantages of front end and back end fee loads for investors in mutual funds if 10 year treasury bills have a yield of 1 and the expected inflation rate over the next year are expected to be 2 25 percent what d

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  1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of front-end and back-end fee loads for investors in mutual funds?
  1. If 10-year Treasury bills have a yield of 1% and the expected inflation rate over the next year are expected to be 2.25 percent, what does this mean about the real rate of return for these investments?Why would investors make such invests?
  1. Locadidi Fund started the year with a NAV of $28.38.By the end of the year, it’s NAV had risen to $30.32.The fund paid year-end distributions of income and capital gains of $1.25.What was the pretax return to an investor in the fund?

State of the Mkt

Probability

Ending price

HPR

Boom

.40

85

41.5%

Normal

.30

65

15.0%

Recession

.30

45

-20%
  1. Given the information above, what is the mean and standard deviation of HPR?
  1. How does the answer to #4 change if the probability of recession rises to 0.5 and boom falls to 0.2?