If you're comparing two portfolios with the same expected return, then you want the one with the lower variance.

比较两个有相同预期收益率的投资组合时，你会选择方差小的那一个。

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But ultimately, everyone agrees I-- that's the premise here, that for the-- if you're comparing two portfolios with the same variance, then you want the one with the higher expected return.

但归根结底大家都会同意这一点-,这是一个前提-,当你比较两个有相同方差的投资组合时，你会选择预期收益率高的那一个。

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Now, less than is just, if you haven't used it before, it's just the operator you'd expect, it's comparing two things and it's going to return either true or false depending on whether the first argument is false less than the second argument.

现在，小于这个符号是，如果你之前没用过它的话，它就是你期望的那个运算符，它会比较两个独享,然后基于第一个参数是不是,小于第二个参数,返回true或者。

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