Change the weights of the assets to improve performance

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You have these 4 assets.

Asset 1: Mean= 1.04 Standard deviation= 0.02 Correlation= 0.5

Asset 2: Mean= 1.09 standard deviation= 0.08 Correlation= -0.08

Asset 3: Mean = 1.02 standard deviation= 0.11 correlation=0.02

Asset 4: mean= 1.04 Standard deviation = 0.10 Correlation=0.07

(Correlation for asset 1 and 2 is 0.5 ; Correlation for asset 1 and 4 is 0.07, Correlation for asset 2 and 3 is -0.08; Correlation for asset 3 and 4 is 0.02)

So if this was a portfolio, how would you change the weights of the assets to improve performance of your portfolio?

 

Then how would you optimize it?

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