Your retirement portfolio comprises 100 shares of the Standard & Poor's 500 fund (SPY) and 100 shares of iShares Barclays Aggregate Bond Fund (AGG). The price of SPY is $115 and that of AGG is $96. If you expect the return on SPY to be 10% in the next year and the return on AGG to be 5%, what is the expected return for your retirement portfolio?

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