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Optimal Portfolio Choice for a Behavioural Investor in Continuous-Time Markets

Portfolio Management 2013-04-30 v3 Optimization and Control

Abstract

The aim of this work consists in the study of the optimal investment strategy for a behavioural investor, whose preference towards risk is described by both a probability distortion and an S-shaped utility function. Within a continuous-time financial market framework and assuming that asset prices are modelled by semimartingales, we derive sufficient and necessary conditions for the well-posedness of the optimisation problem in the case of piecewise-power probability distortion and utility functions. Finally, under straightforwardly verifiable conditions, we further demonstrate the existence of an optimal strategy.

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@article{arxiv.1202.0628,
  title  = {Optimal Portfolio Choice for a Behavioural Investor in Continuous-Time Markets},
  author = {Miklos Rasonyi and Andrea M. Rodrigues},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.0628},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

An error corrected (Proposition 3.4 and the ensuing unnumbered Remark)