Question

You purchased shares of a mutual fund at a price of $20 per share at the beginning of the year and paid a front-end load of 5.75%. If the securities in which the fund invested increased in value by 11% during the year, and the fund's 12b-1 fee was 1.25%, your return if you sold the fund at the end of the year would be ____.

Answer 1

Answer:

3.44%

Explanation:

The computation of the return if sold the fund at the year end is shown below:

= {[Price × (1 - Front End Load) × ((1 + fund increase percentage) -expense ratio)] - price} ÷ price

={[$20 per share × (1 - 5.75%) × ((1 + 11%) - 1.25%)] - 20} ÷ 20

= 3.44%

We simply applied the above formula so that the correct return could come