Question:
Over the past five years, the Phoenix Fund has averaged a monthly return of .013, while money market instruments have yielded .006. During the same period, the mean return on the market index was .08 with a standard deviation of .25 and beta of 1. While evaluating Phoenix Fund, you computed a standard deviation of returns .36, and a beta of 1.2. Compute the Sharpe measure for Phoenix Fund and the Index Fund.