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In this work we study the continuous time exponential utility maximization problem in the framework of an investor who is informed about the price changes with a delay. This leads to a non-Markovian stochastic control problem. In the case…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-10-06 Yan Dolinsky

We consider a single-period portfolio selection problem for an investor, maximizing the expected ratio of the portfolio utility and the utility of a best asset taken in hindsight. The decision rules are based on the history of stock returns…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2020-06-11 Dmitry B. Rokhlin

This article studies the sensitivity of the power utility maximization problem with respect to the investor's relative risk aversion, the statistical probability measure, the investment constraints and the market price of risk. We extend…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-04 Markus Mocha , Nicholas Westray

This paper analyzes a problem of optimal static hedging using derivatives in incomplete markets. The investor is assumed to have a risk exposure to two underlying assets. The hedging instruments are vanilla options written on a single…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-03-04 Tim Leung , Matthew Lorig , Yoshihiro Shirai

In this paper, we consider the problem of optimal investment by an insurer. The insurer invests in a market consisting of a bank account and $m$ risky assets. The mean returns and volatilities of the risky assets depend nonlinearly on…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2019-03-22 Hiroaki Hata , Shuenn-Jyi Sheu , Li-Hsien Sun

We consider the problem of maximising expected utility from terminal wealth in a semimartingale setting, where the semimartingale is written as a sum of a time-changed Brownian motion and a finite variation process. To solve this problem,…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Giulia Di Nunno , Hannes Haferkorn , Asma Khedher , Michèle Vanmaele

We prove existence and uniqueness of stochastic equilibria in a class of incomplete continuous-time financial environments where the market participants are exponential utility maximizers with heterogeneous risk-aversion coefficients and…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2010-06-02 Gordan Zitkovic

Obtaining utility maximizing optimal portfolios in closed form is a challenging issue when the return vector follows a more general distribution than the normal one. In this note, we give closed form expressions, in markets based on…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-02-10 Miklós Rásonyi , Hasanjan Sayit

We offer mathematical tractability and new insights for a framework of exponential utility with non-negative consumption, a constraint often omitted in the literature giving rise to economically unviable solutions. Specifically, using the…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2019-06-27 Roman Muraviev

We consider the problem of utility maximization with exponential preferences in a market where the traded stock/risky asset price is modelled as a L\'evy-driven pure jump process (i.e. the driving L\'evy process has no Brownian component).…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Carla Mereu , Robert Stelzer

This paper studies the utility maximization problem with changing time horizons in the incomplete Brownian setting. We first show that the primal value function and the optimal terminal wealth are continuous with respect to the time horizon…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2010-10-04 Kasper Larsen , Hang Yu

We propose a tractable dynamic framework for the joint determination of optimal consumption, portfolio choice, and healthcare irreversible investment. Our model is based on a Merton's portfolio and consumption problem, where, in addition,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Giorgio Ferrari , Shihao Zhu

We study the problem of optimal portfolio selection in an illiquid market with discrete order flow. In this market, bids and offers are not available at any time but trading occurs more frequently near a terminal horizon. The investor can…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2009-07-14 Paul Gassiat , Huyen Pham , Mihai Sirbu

We study the stochastic control problem of maximizing expected utility from terminal wealth under a non-bankruptcy constraint. The wealth process is subject to shocks produced by a general marked point process. The problem of the agent is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-08-31 Mohamed Mnif

We study investment and insurance demand decisions for an agent in a theoretical continuous-time expected utility maximization model that combines risky assets with an (exogenous) insurable background risk. This risk takes the form of a…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-03-09 Hugo E. Ramirez , Rafael Serrano

We consider an illiquid financial market with different regimes modeled by a continuous-time finite-state Markov chain. The investor can trade a stock only at the discrete arrival times of a Cox process with intensity depending on the…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2012-04-26 Paul Gassiat , Fausto Gozzi , Huyên Pham

This paper studies a portfolio allocation problem, where the goal is to prescribe the wealth distribution at the final time. We study this problem with the tools of optimal mass transport. We provide a dual formulation which we solve by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Ivan Guo , Nicolas Langrené , Grégoire Loeper , Wei Ning

We consider the problem of utility maximization for investors with power utility functions. Building on the earlier work Larsen et al. (2016), we prove that the value of the problem is a Frechet-differentiable function of the drift of the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-03-28 Huy N. Chau , Miklos Rasonyi

We study the expected utility portfolio optimization problem in an incomplete financial market where the risky asset dynamics depend on stochastic factors and the portfolio allocation is constrained to lie within a given convex set. We…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2023-03-20 Marcos Escobar-Anel , Michel Kschonnek , Rudi Zagst

We study utility maximization for power utility random fields with and without intermediate consumption in a general semimartingale model with closed portfolio constraints. We show that any optimal strategy leads to a solution of the…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2012-03-09 Marcel Nutz