“…When we need to explicitly verify the quality of the obtained approximation (by resorting to brute-force algorithms that require a dataset of reasonable size), we will use the following dataset [1], where µ are the expected returns, σ the volatilities and Σ the covariance matrix: µ " r0.06, 0.07, 0.095, 0.015, 0.013, 0.032, 0s T σ " r0.143, 0.174, 0.212, 0.043, 0.040, 0.084, 0.005s 7. Sovereign letters of credit and cash.…”