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Abstract, Classic, and Explicit Turnpikes

Portfolio Management 2012-02-09 v2 Probability

Abstract

Portfolio turnpikes state that, as the investment horizon increases, optimal portfolios for generic utilities converge to those of isoelastic utilities. This paper proves three kinds of turnpikes. In a general semimartingale setting, the abstract turnpike states that optimal final payoffs and portfolios converge under their myopic probabilities. In diffusion models with several assets and a single state variable, the classic turnpike demonstrates that optimal portfolios converge under the physical probability; meanwhile the explicit turnpike identifies the limit of finite-horizon optimal portfolios as a long-run myopic portfolio defined in terms of the solution of an ergodic HJB equation.

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@article{arxiv.1101.0945,
  title  = {Abstract, Classic, and Explicit Turnpikes},
  author = {Paolo Guasoni and Constantinos Kardaras and Scott Robertson and Hao Xing},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.0945},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

36 pages. Revised version. Certain technical conditions on utility have been removed and a new example has been added

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