It shows the standard deviation of the return on the portfolio as a function of the expected return on the portfolio.

它是投资组合的收益标准差,关于预期收益率的函数图像。

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2% You could say, I think my portfolio has an expected return of 12%-- that would be better than if it had an expected return of 10%.

如果一个投资组合的预期收益率有-,那就比一个只有10%的投资组合要好。

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Over this time period, that portfolio had an expected return of something like a little over 9% and it had a standard deviation of a little over 9%.

在这个时间段，这个投资组合的预期收益率是,9%多一点%,标准差是9%多一点。

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So, for example, at an annual expected return of 12% if I have a portfolio of stocks, bonds, and oil I can get a standard deviation of something like 8% on my portfolio.

例如，在年预期收益12%的情况下%,我有股票，债券和石油的投资组合,在这个组合里,我的投资组合可以取到8%的标准差。

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Then, once we did that we could plug that into the formula that I gave you last time and get the standard deviation of the portfolio and the expected return on the portfolio.

再将估算出的数值代入到,上节课给你们的公式中,就能得到资产投资组合的标准差,和该投资组合的预期收益率

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So, the optimal thing to do if you live in a world like this n is to get n as large possible and you can reduce the standard deviation of the portfolio very much and there's no cost in terms of expected return.

如果现实中也这样简单的话,那么你就尽量增大,这样就能让投资组合的标准差,就会大大降低,从预期收益率的角度来看,这样做的成本是零。

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