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We consider a discrete-time model of a financial market where a risky asset is bought and sold with transactions having a transient price impact. It is shown that the corresponding utility maximization problem admits a solution. We manage…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-11-18 Lóránt Nagy , Miklós Rásonyi

In this paper, we consider $n$ agents who invest in a general financial market that is free of arbitrage and complete. The aim of each investor is to maximize her expected utility while ensuring, with a specified probability, that her…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Nicole Bäuerle , Tamara Göll

Dynamic hedging is a financial strategy that consists in periodically transacting one or multiple financial assets to offset the risk associated with a correlated liability. Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms have been used to…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-04-18 Andrei Neagu , Frédéric Godin , Leila Kosseim

The field of portfolio selection is an active research topic, which combines elements and methodologies from various fields, such as optimization, decision analysis, risk management, data science, forecasting, etc. The modeling and…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2020-10-28 A. Georgantas

We solve an expected utility-maximization problem with a Value-at-risk constraint on the terminal portfolio value in an incomplete financial market due to stochastic volatility. To derive the optimal investment strategy, we use the dynamic…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-05-21 Marcos Escobar-Anel , Yevhen Havrylenko , Rudi Zagst

We show that many machine learning goals, such as improved fairness metrics, can be expressed as constraints on the model's predictions, which we call rate constraints. We study the problem of training non-convex models subject to these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Andrew Cotter , Heinrich Jiang , Serena Wang , Taman Narayan , Maya Gupta , Seungil You , Karthik Sridharan

Hedging exotic options in presence of market frictions is an important risk management task. Deep hedging can solve such hedging problems by training neural network policies in realistic simulated markets. Training these neural networks may…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-10-31 Konrad Mueller , Amira Akkari , Lukas Gonon , Ben Wood

The AlphaZero algorithm for the learning of strategy games via self-play, which has produced superhuman ability in the games of Go, chess, and shogi, uses a quantitative reward function for game outcomes, requiring the users of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Dan Schmidt , Nick Moran , Jonathan S. Rosenfeld , Jonathan Rosenthal , Jonathan Yedidia

This work focuses on the dynamic hedging of financial derivatives, where a reinforcement learning algorithm is designed to minimize the variance of the delta hedging process. In contrast to previous research in this area, we apply…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Cong Zheng , Jiafa He , Can Yang

We study the most famous example of a large financial market: the Arbitrage Pricing Model, where investors can trade in a one-period setting with countably many assets admitting a factor structure. We consider the problem of maximising…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2020-10-06 Laurence Carassus , Miklos Rasonyi

We expose a theoretical hedging optimization framework with variational preferences under convex risk measures. We explore a general dual representation for the composition between risk measures and utilities. We study the properties of the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-10-11 Marcelo Righi

In this paper, the optimal mean-reverting portfolio (MRP) design problem is considered, which plays an important role for the statistical arbitrage (a.k.a. pairs trading) strategy in financial markets. The target of the optimal MRP design…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2018-03-09 Ziping Zhao , Rui Zhou , Zhongju Wang , Daniel P. Palomar

This paper shows how reinforcement learning can be used to derive optimal hedging strategies for derivatives when there are transaction costs. The paper illustrates the approach by showing the difference between using delta hedging and…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-03-31 Jay Cao , Jacky Chen , John Hull , Zissis Poulos

We consider the hedging error of a derivative due to discrete trading in the presence of a drift in the dynamics of the underlying asset. We suppose that the trader wishes to find rebalancing times for the hedging portfolio which enable him…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-18 Jiatu Cai , Masaaki Fukasawa , Mathieu Rosenbaum , Peter Tankov

Extending Buehler et al.'s 2019 Deep Hedging paradigm, we innovatively employ deep neural networks to parameterize convex-risk minimization (CVaR/ES) for the portfolio tail-risk hedging problem. Through comprehensive numerical experiments…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-07-01 Yuming Ma

We consider portfolio selection under nonparametric $\alpha$-maxmin ambiguity in the neighbourhood of a reference distribution. We show strict concavity of the portfolio problem under ambiguity aversion. Implied demand functions are…

General Economics · Economics 2022-06-22 Michail Anthropelos , Paul Schneider

Convex duality for two two different super--replication problems in a continuous time financial market with proportional transaction cost is proved. In this market, static hedging in a finite number of options, in addition to usual dynamic…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-10-20 Yan Dolinsky , H. Mete Soner

This paper investigates the problem of ensembling multiple strategies for sequential portfolios to outperform individual strategies in terms of long-term wealth. Due to the uncertainty of strategies' performances in the future market, which…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-02-07 Duy Khanh Lam

The construction of replication strategies for contingent claims in the presence of risk and market friction is a key problem of financial engineering. In real markets, continuous replication, such as in the model of Black, Scholes and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Loris Cannelli , Giuseppe Nuti , Marzio Sala , Oleg Szehr

Models trained under assumptions in the complete market usually don't take effect in the incomplete market. This paper solves the hedging problem in incomplete market with three sources of incompleteness: risk factor, illiquidity, and…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-05-12 Ruochen Xiao , Qiaochu Feng , Ruxin Deng