What finance theory is based on-- and much of economics is based on-- the idea that people want to maximize the expected utility of their wealth.

金融学理论建立在,并且很多经济学的都是建立在,人们希望能使自己对,财富的期望效用最大化这一基础上

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To calculate the expected utility of your wealth, you might also have to look at the expected return, or the geometric expected return, or the standard deviation.

要计算你财富的期望效用,你也许还要研究预期收益曲线,或几何预期收益率,或是标准差

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