Question: Kamchatka-Common Equity Portfolio (A). An investor is evaluating a two-asset portfolio that combines a U.S. equity fund with a Russian equity fund. The expected returns, risks, and correlation coefficients for the coming one-year period are as follows:
Assuming the expected correlation coefficient is 0.52 for the coming year, which weights (use increments of 5% such as 95/5, 90/10) result in the best trade-off between expected risk and expected return?