Solution

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For a numéraire portfolio , the normal random variable is strictly positive almost surely. A nondegenerate normal variable has support on all of , so it must be degenerate: , equivalently . Thus deterministically. The scaled portfolio
has terminal value almost surely and therefore replicates a risk-free bond.

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