Trina Romel, mutual fund manager, is taking over a poor-performing fund from a colleague. Romel wants to calculate the return on the portfolio. Over the last five years, the fund’s annual percentage returns were: 25, 15, 12, -8, and –14. Determine if the geometric return of the fund will be less than or greater than the arithmetic return and calculate the fund’s geometric return: Geometric Return Geometric compared to Arithmetic A) 4.96% greater than B) 12.86% greater than C) 12.86% less than D) 4.96% less than