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We consider a problem of optimal investment with intermediate consumption in the framework of an incomplete semimartingale model of a financial market. We show that a necessary and sufficient condition for the validity of key assertions of…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2012-07-17 Oleksii Mostovyi

We consider the problem of utility maximization for small traders on incomplete financial markets. As opposed to most of the papers dealing with this subject, the investors' trading strategies we allow underly constraints described by…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-10 Ying Hu , Peter Imkeller , Matthias Muller

We study utility maximization problem for general utility functions using dynamic programming approach. We consider an incomplete financial market model, where the dynamics of asset prices are described by an $R^d$-valued continuous…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-10 M. Mania , R. Tevzadze

This paper concerns the recursive utility maximization problem. We assume that the coefficients of the wealth equation and the recursive utility are concave. Then some interesting and important cases with nonlinear and nonsmooth…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-07-05 Shaolin Ji , Xiaomin Shi

This paper studies the utility maximization problem of an agent with non-trivial endowment, and whose preferences are modeled by the maximal subsolution of a BSDE. We prove existence of an optimal trading strategy and relate our existence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-16 Gregor Heyne , Michael Kupper , Ludovic Tangpi

In continuous-time portfolio selection for non-concave utility functions, the martingale duality approach is widely adopted in complete markets, while the dynamic programming approach may sometimes lead to singular solutions of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Yang Liu , Alexander Schied , Zhenyu Shen

A drawdown constraint forces the current wealth to remain above a given function of its maximum to date. We consider the portfolio optimisation problem of maximising the long-term growth rate of the expected utility of wealth subject to a…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2013-04-23 Vladimir Cherny , Jan Obloj

We consider the problem of maximizing expected utility from consumption in a constrained incomplete semimartingale market with a random endowment process, and establish a general existence and uniqueness result using techniques from convex…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-10 Ioannis Karatzas , Gordan Zitkovic

We investigate expected utility maximization problems from the terminal liquidation value in continuous time in markets with transaction costs and one fixed consistent price system, where a non-concave utility function is defined on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Lingqi Gu , Yiqing Lin

We study the convex duality method for robust utility maximization in the presence of a random endowment. When the underlying price process is a locally bounded semimartingale, we show that the fundamental duality relation holds true for a…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-03-17 Keita Owari

We maximize the expected utility of terminal wealth in an incomplete market where there are cone constraints on the investor's portfolio process and the utility function is not assumed to be strictly concave or differentiable. We establish…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2010-10-21 Nicholas Westray , Harry Zheng

We consider a discrete-time financial market model with finite time horizon and give conditions which guarantee the existence of an optimal strategy for the problem of maximizing expected terminal utility. Equivalent martingale measures are…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-10 Miklos Rasonyi , Lukasz Stettner

In this paper, we study a constrained utility maximization problem following the convex duality approach. After formulating the primal and dual problems, we construct the necessary and sufficient conditions for both the primal and dual…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-12-15 Yusong Li , Harry Zheng

In this paper we study the problem of maximizing expected utility from the terminal wealth with proportional transaction costs and random endowment. In the context of the existence of consistent price systems, we consider the duality…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-09-06 Yiqing Lin , Junjian Yang

In this paper, we study the dual problem of the expected utility maximization in incomplete markets with bounded random endowment. We start with the problem formulated in the paper of Cvitani\'{c}-Schachermayer-Wang (2001) and prove the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-30 Lingqi Gu , Yiqing Lin , Junjian Yang

This paper studies a type of periodic utility maximization problems for portfolio management in incomplete stochastic factor models with convex trading constraints. The portfolio performance is periodically evaluated on the relative ratio…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-11-22 Wenyuan Wang , Kaixin Yan , Xiang Yu

In an incomplete financial market with general continuous semimartingale dynamics; we model an investor with log-utility preferences who, in addition to an initial capital, receives units of a non-traded endowment process. Using duality…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-01-23 Michail Anthropelos , Constantinos Kardaras , Constantinos Stefanakis

In an incomplete model, where under an appropriate num\'eraire, the stock price process is driven by a sigma-bounded semimartingale, we investigate the behavior of the expected utility maximization problem under small perturbations of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Oleksii Mostovyi

We develop a second order primal-dual method for optimization problems in which the objective function is given by the sum of a strongly convex twice differentiable term and a possibly nondifferentiable convex regularizer. After introducing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Neil K. Dhingra , Sei Zhen Khong , Mihailo R. Jovanović

We treat utility maximization from terminal wealth for an agent with utility function $U:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ who dynamically invests in a continuous-time financial market and receives a possibly unbounded random endowment. We prove the…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2018-03-23 Miklos Rasonyi