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问题如下：
Calculate the contribution of foreign currency to the Bhatt account’s total
return. Show your calculations.
选项：
解释：
Currency movements contributed 1.5% to the account’s 7.0% total (US dollar)
return, calculated as follows:
The domestic-currency return (RDC ) on a portfolio of multiple foreign assets is
Where RFC ,i is the foreign-currency return on the ith foreign asset, RFX ,i is the
appreciation of the ith foreign currency against the domestic currency, and Éi
is the weight of the asset as a percentage of the aggregate domestic-currency
value of the portfolio. This equation can be rearranged as
Therefore, the domestic-currency return is equal to the sum of the weighted
asset return, the weighted currency return, and the weighted cross-product
of the asset return and the currency return. The latter two terms explain the
effects of foreign-currency movements on the Bhatt account’s total (US dollar)
return of 7.0%.
The weighted asset return is equal to 5.5%, calculated as follows:
(0.50 × 10.0%) + (0.25 × 5.0%) + [0.25 × (–3.0%)] = 5.5%.
The weighted currency return is equal to 1.5% calculated as follows:
(0.50 × 0.0%) + (0.25 × 2.0%) + (0.25 × 4.0%) = 1.5%.
The weighted cross-product is equal to –0.005%, calculated as follows:
[0.50 × (10.0% × 0.0%)] + [0.25 × (5.0% × 2.0%)] + [0.25 × (–3.0% × 4.0%)] =
–0.005%.
Therefore, the contribution of foreign currency equals 1.5%, calculated as the
7.0% total (US dollar) return less the 5.5% weighted asset return. Alternatively,
the contribution of foreign currency to the total return can be calculated as the
sum of the weighted currency return of 1.5% and the weighted cross-product of
–0.005%:
1.5% + (–0.005%) = 1.495%, which rounds to 1.5%.
中文解析：
本题考察的是外汇投资中return的计算。
表格中给到的currency return是对应单个资产的，而本题中是投资了三个外币资产，因此是一个资产组合，所以涉及到加权平均的过程。
另外需要注意的是“the contribution of foreign currency”是包含了交叉项部分的return的。
看到表格中这两个标题，完全不知道是什么，不知道用哪个算。直到看到答案才发现asset return就是R_FC，currency return就是R_FX，因为两列分别加权求和是5.5+1.5=7。但考试的时候怎么可能通过计算去推测呢？请问怎么判断出二者的意思？为什么asset return不是R_DC，currency return不是R_FC，有什么依据？
