Definition: In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine the neutral choice based on your inference from the statement and your commonsense knowledge. The neutral choice is a sentence that neither agrees nor disagrees with the statement. Indicate your answer as '1', '2', or '3', corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence. If sentence X agrees with sentence Y, one's correctness follows from the other one. If sentence X disagrees with sentence Y, they can not be correct at the same time.
Input: Statement: Still, as traditionalists such as Ball acknowledge, private investments--even the broad-based, relatively conservative portfolios selected by insurance companies and banks--do offer significantly better returns than government bonds. Choices: 1. He concurred that the private investments were more sound than the bonds. 2. He sold all his bonds to pay for tuition. 3. He did not have any government bonds.

3