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(a) Identify which of the two Funds is likely to be a market neutral fund and explain your answer.

(b) Calculate the information ratio of Fund A and comment on what this indicates about the performance of the Fund.

(c) Calculate the Sharpe ratios and Sortino ratios for both Funds A and B and interpret what this indicates about the performance of the Funds.

(d) Calculate the leverage of Fund B and discuss whether this is likely to have increased the risk over a long-only fund that does not employ leverage.

(e) Fund A kept 10% of their fund in cash and 90% invested in global equity markets. Using performance attribution analysis calculate how much this asset allocation decision contributed to returns, assuming the return on cash is the same as the risk-free rate.

(f) Fund B charges performance fees, discuss the advantages and disadvantages for the investor of a manager applying performance fees to a fund.

You are reviewing last year's performance data (shown in Table 6) of two funds that invest in global equities. The risk-free rate over the last year has been 1.0% and the total return on the global equity index which has been used as a benchmark for Fund A has been 10.0% over the last year. Table 6 Fund A 10.8 Fund B 4.3 4.7 14.3 4.7 0.9 n/a n/a Total Return (Net) % Volatility % Tracking Error % Beta Downside deviation % Long positions (% NAV) Short positions (% NAV) 10.6 6.0 90 73 0 78

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