One of our clients, Mr. Lee, currently has an investment portfolio value of $1mil. His portfolio consists of 70% risky portfolio and 30% risk-free asset.  If Mr. lee has now extra $100,000 cash to invest, and if he is a constant relative risk aversion, how do you think he wants to allocate his extra $100,000 over the risky and the risk-free asset?

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