Under Capital Market Theory, the relevant risk to consider with any security is: (a) Its correlation with other securities in the portfolio. (b) Its covariance with the market portfolio. (c) Its deviation from the portfolio required rate of return. (d) Its variance from the risk - free rate of return. (e) None of the above

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