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Which of the following conditions must hold for the tangency portfolio to be well-defined and unique in a standard mean-variance optimization?

  1. Every single one of the assets' expected returns must be a strictly positive value for tangency.
  2. The covariance matrix Sigma must be diagonal, meaning all asset return correlations are zero.
  3. The risk-free rate r_f must be less than the expected return of the Global Minimum Variance portfolio.
  4. The number of assets n must exceed the number of return observations used to estimate the covariance matrix.

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