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Funds 103: Earnings from Mutual Funds

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1.
Imagine that a share of your Fund X rises from 20 dollars per share to 30 dollars per share. How much of a capital gain have you made on it?
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10 dollars, but only if you have sold it. Until they have been sold, shares that rise in price will only be profits on paper.
2.
A return of capital is a type of what?
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None of the above. Returns of capital are merely your own money returned to you.
3.
How does a mutual fund increase its value?
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It receives the dividends, interest, and capital gains from the securities in its portfolio. The fund then passes these earnings to shareholders.
4.
Mutual fund dividends are passed to investors from ______.
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The earnings of the securities in a fund. The fund passes earnings from its portfolio in the form of dividends to its shareholders.
5.
The confirmation statement sent to investors after a dividend reinvestment states all but which of the following?
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An investor's capital gains. Capital gain information arrives in a different notice.
6.
Because it is a sum, a total return is positive.
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False. If there has been a substantial loss in net asset value, the sum may be negative.