A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. the first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term government and corporate bond fund, and the third is a t-bill money market fund that yields a rate of 8%. the probability distribution of the risky funds is as follows: expected return standard deviation stock fund (s) 24% 33% bond fund (b) 14 22 the correlation between the fund returns is 0.14. a-1. what are the investment proportions in the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds. (do not round intermediate calculations. enter your answers as decimals rounded to 4 places.) portfolio invested in the stock portfolio invested in the bond a-2. what is the expected value and standard deviation of its rate of return? (do not round intermediate calculations. enter your answers as decimals rounded to 4 places.)

Following is a list of various costs incurred in producing replacement automobile parts. with respect to the production and sale of these auto parts, classify each cost as either variable costs, fixed costs, or mixed costs. 1. oil used in manufacturing equipment 2. plastic 3. property taxes, $165,000 per year on factory building and equipment 4. salary of plant manager 5. cost of labor for hourly workers 6. packaging 7. factory cleaning costs, $6,000 per month 8. metal 9. rent on warehouse, $10,000 per month plus $25 per square foot of storage used 10. property insurance premiums, $3,600 per month plus $0.01 for each dollar of property over $1,200,000 11. straight-line depreciation on the production equipment 12. hourly wages of machine operators 13. electricity costs, $0.20 per kilowatt-hour 14. computer chip (purchased from a vendor) 15. pension cost, $1.00 per employee hour on the job

How did the contribution of the goods producing sector to gdp growth change between 2010 and 2011 a. it fell by 0.3%. b. it fell by 2.3%. c. it rose by 2.3%. d. it rose by 0.6%. the answer is b

Margaret company reported the following information for the current year: net sales $3,000,000 purchases $1,957,000 beginning inventory $245,000 ending inventory $115,000 cost of goods sold 65% of sales industry averages available are: inventory turnover 5.29 gross profit percentage 28% how do the inventory turnover and gross profit percentage for margaret company compare to the industry averages for the same ratios? (round inventory turnover to two decimal places. round gross profit percentage to the nearest percent.)