In a Particular Year, Aggie Mutual Fund Earned a Return

question 7

Multiple Choice

In a particular year, Aggie Mutual Fund earned a return of 15% by making the following investments in the following asset classes: $$\begin{array} { | l | l | l | } \hline & \text { Weight } & \text { Return } \\\hline \text { Bonds } & 10 \% & 6 \% \\\hline \text { Stocks } & 90 \% & 16 \% \\\hline\end{array}$$ The return on a bogey portfolio was 10%, calculated as follows: $$\begin{array} { | l | l | l | } \hline & \text { Weight } & \text { Return } \\\hline \text { Bonds (Lehman Brothers Index) } & 50 \% & 5 \% \\\hline \text { Stocks (S\&P 500 Index) } & 50 \% & 15 \% \\\hline\end{array}$$
-The contribution of asset allocation across markets to the total excess return was

• A)1%
• B)3%
• C)4%
• D)5%
• E)none of the above

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Definitions:

Marginal Revenue Product

The additional revenue generated from employing one more unit of a resource, all other factors being constant.

Resource Productivity

The ratio of output (goods and services) produced per unit of resource input, used to assess the efficiency of resource use.

Ceteris Paribus

A Latin phrase meaning 'all other things being equal,' used in economics to isolate the effect of one variable on another by holding all other relevant factors constant.

Resource Prices

The costs associated with the factors of production like labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurship used in the creation of goods or services.