Consider a portfolio formed of two risky assets whose returns have a correlation of 0.5. What can be said of the standard deviation of the global minimum-variance portfolio formed with these two risky assets? O It's greater than zero. It s equal to zero. It s between -1 and +1. It's the weighted average of the standard deviations of the two risky assets.

Consider a portfolio formed of two risky assets whose returns have a correlation of 0.5. What can be said of the standard deviation of the global minimum-variance portfolio formed with these two risky assets? O It's greater than zero. It s equal to zero. It s between -1 and +1. It's the weighted average of the standard deviations of the two risky assets.

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