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Deep Hedging: Continuous Reinforcement Learning for Hedging of General Portfolios across Multiple Risk Aversions

Computational Finance 2022-07-18 v1 Risk Management Machine Learning

Abstract

We present a method for finding optimal hedging policies for arbitrary initial portfolios and market states. We develop a novel actor-critic algorithm for solving general risk-averse stochastic control problems and use it to learn hedging strategies across multiple risk aversion levels simultaneously. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach with a numerical example in a stochastic volatility environment.

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@article{arxiv.2207.07467,
  title  = {Deep Hedging: Continuous Reinforcement Learning for Hedging of General Portfolios across Multiple Risk Aversions},
  author = {Phillip Murray and Ben Wood and Hans Buehler and Magnus Wiese and Mikko S. Pakkanen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.07467},
  year   = {2022}
}