An Investor Wants to Invest $50,000 in Two Mutual Funds,A

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Essay

An investor wants to invest $50,000 in two mutual funds,A and B.The rates of return,risks and minimum investment requirements for each fund are:
$\begin{array}{lrrr}&&&\text { Minimum }\\\text { Fund } & \text { Rate of return } & \text { Risk }&\text { investment }\\\hline\mathrm{A} & 12 \% & 0.5 & \$ 20,000 \\\mathrm{~B} & 9 \% & 0.3 & \$ 10.000\end{array}$
Note that a low Risk rating means a less risky investment.The investor can invest to maximize the expected rate of return or minimize risk.Any money beyond the minimum investment requirements can be invested in either fund.
Formulate the MOLP for this investor.

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Definitions:

Conversion Costs

The total expenses of direct labor together with manufacturing overheads spent in transforming raw materials into completed products.

Process Cost Accounting System

A bookkeeping mechanism for distributing costs among similar items that are produced in large scale and without interruption.

Equivalent Units of Production

A concept in cost accounting used to assign costs to partially completed goods, calculated by taking the number of units in the production process and converting them into a number of completed units.

Conversion Cost

The combined total of labor and manufacturing overhead costs necessary to convert raw materials into finished products.