基于Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman方程求解保险业最优投资策略

在经典复合泊松模型中,保险公司将资金投入一个风险投资过程和一个无风险投资过程.当索赔的分布确定后,运用随机控制中的HJB方程最小化保险公司的破产概率,在已知投资规模或投资组合的情况下求解二者中的另一项,进而得到最优投资策略并讨论各种策略的运用对破产概率的影响.解决保险公司的投资资金分配问题,在实际应用中具有一定的参考价值.     

线性约束下保险公司的最优投资策略

现实中,保险公司的投资行为会受到《保险法》及其自身风险管理条例的约束; 另外,保险公司必须提存一定数量的准备金以满足监管规定.鉴于此,本文将保险公司盈余首达最低准备金水平的时刻定义为``破产”时刻,以最小化``破产”概率为目标, 假设保险公司的盈余过程服从扩散模型,其可投资无风险资产与一种风险资产且投资受线性约束.我们通过求解相应的HJB方程得到了值函数与最优投资策略的解析式并给出了经济解释与数值算例.     

最小化破产概率的保险人鲁棒投资再保险策略研究

在模型不确定条件下,研究以破产概率最小化为目标的模糊厌恶型保险公司的最优投资再保险问题. 假设保险公司可投资于一种风险资产,也可购买比例再保险. 分别考虑风险资产的价格过程服从随机波动率模型和非随机波动率模型的两种情况,根据动态规划原理建立相应的HJB方程,得到保险公司的最优鲁棒投资再保险策略和价值函数的解析解. 最后,通过数值模拟分析了各模型参数对最优策略和价值函数的影响.     

具有随机利率、随机变差的最优投资和联合比例-超额损失再保险

对跳-扩散风险模型,研究了最优投资和再保险问题.保险公司可以购买再保险减少理赔,保险公司还可以把盈余投资在一个无风险资产和一个风险资产上.假设再保险的方式为联合比例-超额损失再保险.还假设无风险资产和风险资产的利率是随机的,风险资产的方差也是随机的.通过解决相应的Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman(HJB)方程,获得了最优值函数和最优投资、再保险策略的显示解.特别的,通过一个例子具体的解释了得到的结论.     

Cramér-Lundberg型下保险公司的最优投资和混合再保

假定保险公司既可以投资在风险资产上,同时又允许混合再保险.用经典的Cramér-Lundberg模型来近似保险公司的盈余过程,考虑了在破产概率最小限制下保险公司的最优投资和再保策略满足的HJB方程,证明了解的存在性和最优性,并对最优策略下的破产概率进行了近似估计.     

含不动产项目的保险公司再保险-投资策略

站在保险公司管理者的角度, 考虑存在不动产项目投资机会时保险公司的再保险--投资策略问题. 假定保险公司可以投资于不动产项目、风险证券和无风险证券, 并通过比例再保险控制风险, 目标是最小化保险公司破产概率并求得相应最佳策略, 包括: 不动产项目投资时机、 再保险比例以及投资于风险证券的金额. 运用混合随机控制-最优停时方法, 得到最优值函数及最佳策略的显式解. 结果表明, 当且仅当其盈余资金多于某一水平(称为投资阈值)时保险公司投资于不动产项目. 进一步的数值算例分析表明: (a)~不动产项目投资的阈值主要受项目收益率影响而与投资金额无明显关系, 收益率越高则投资阈值越低; (b)~市场环境较好(牛市)时项目的投资阈值降低; 反之, 当市场环境较差(熊市)时投资阈值提高.     

On reinsurance and investment for large insurance portfolios

We consider a problem of optimal reinsurance and investment for an insurance company whose surplus is governed by a linear diffusion. The company’s risk (and simultaneously its potential profit) is reduced through reinsurance, while in addition the company invests its surplus in a financial market. Our main goal is to find an optimal reinsurance-investment policy which minimizes the probability of ruin. More specifically, in this paper we consider the case of proportional reinsurance, and investment in a Black-Scholes market with one risk-free asset (bond, or bank account) and one risky asset (stock). We apply stochastic control theory to solve this problem. It transpires that the qualitative nature of the solution depends significantly on the interplay between the exogenous parameters and the constraints that we impose on the investment, such as the presence or absence of shortselling and/or borrowing. In each case we solve the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation and find a closed-form expression for the minimal ruin probability as well as the optimal reinsurance-investment policy.     

索赔次数为复合Poisson-Geometric过程下的破产概率和最优投资和再保险策略

本文对索赔次数为复合Poisson-Geometric过程的风险模型,在保险公司的盈余可以投资于风险资产,以及索赔购买比例再保险的策略下,研究使得破产概率最小的最优投资和再保险策略.通过求解相应的Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman方程,得到使得破产概率最小的最优投资和比例再保险策略,以及最小破产概率的显示表达式.     

保险公司实业项目投资策略研究

考虑保险公司实业项目投资问题. 假定1)保险公司可以选择在某一时刻投资一实业项目(Real investment), 该项投资可以为保险公司带来稳定的资金收入而不影响其风险;2)保险公司可以将盈余资金投资于证券市场, 该市场包含一风险资产.目标是通过最小化破产概率来确定保险公司实业项目投资时间和风险资产的投资金额.运用混合随机控制-最优停时方法,得到值函数的半显式解, 进而得到保险公司的最佳投资策略: 以固定金额投资证券市场; 当保险公司盈余高于一定额度(称为投资门槛)时进行项目投资, 并降低风险资产投资金额.最后采用数值算例分析了不同市场环境下投资门槛与投资金额, 投资收益率之间的关系. 结果表明:1)项目投资所需金额越少、收益率越高, 则项目投资的门槛越低;2)市场环境较好时(牛市)项目的投资门槛提高, 保险公司应较多的投资于证券市场; 反之, 当市场环境较差时(熊市)投资门槛降低,保险公司倾向于实业项目投资.     

马尔科夫调节风险模型下的最优投资策略:最大化终端效用

本文用跳-扩散模型模拟保险公司的盈余过程,并允许该盈余在由1个无风险资产和N个风险资产组成的金融市场上进行投资.盈余过程和资产价格过程模型中的参数皆受到一个可观察的有限状态连续马尔科夫过程的影响.为了最大化终端效用,我们寻找最优的投资策略,借助HJB方程等工具问题得到解决.当公司的效用函数为指数型时,我们给出了最优投资策略与其对应的值函数的显示表达式,以及相关的经济解释.Browne (1995)和Yang和Zhang (2005)的一些结论得到推广.     

Optimal investment strategy to minimize the ruin probability of an insurance company under borrowing constraints

We consider that the surplus of an insurance company follows a Cramér-Lundberg process. The management has the possibility of investing part of the surplus in a risky asset. We consider that the risky asset is a stock whose price process is a geometric Brownian motion. Our aim is to find a dynamic choice of the investment policy which minimizes the ruin probability of the company. We impose that the ratio between the amount invested in the risky asset and the surplus should be smaller than a given positive bound a. For instance the case a=1 means that the management cannot borrow money to buy stocks.[Hipp, C., Plum, M., 2000. Optimal investment for insurers. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics 27, 215-228] and [Schmidli, H., 2002. On minimizing the ruin probability by investment and reinsurance. Ann. Appl. Probab. 12, 890-907] solved this problem without borrowing constraints. They found that the ratio between the amount invested in the risky asset and the surplus goes to infinity as the surplus approaches zero, so the optimal strategies of the constrained and unconstrained problems never coincide.We characterize the optimal value function as the classical solution of the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation. This equation is a second-order non-linear integro-differential equation. We obtain numerical solutions for some claim-size distributions and compare our results with those of the unconstrained case.     

带交易费用的最优投资和比例再保险

研究了保险公司的最优投资和再保险问题.保险公司的盈余通过跳-扩散风险模型来模拟,可以把盈余的一部分投资到金融市场,金融市场由一个无风险资产和n个风险资产组成,并且保险公司还可以购买比例再保险;在买卖风险资产时,考虑了交易费用.通过随机控制的理论,获得了最优策略和值函数的显示解.     

Optimal proportional reinsurance and investment with minimum probability of ruin

The paper concerns a problem of optimal reinsurance and investment in order to minimizing the probability of ruin. In the whole paper, the cedent’s surplus is allowed to invest in a risk-free asset and a risky asset and the company’s risk is reduced through proportional reinsurance, while in addition the claim process is assumed to follow a Brownian motion with drift. By solving the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations, the optimal reinsurance-investment strategy is derived. The presented results generalize those by Taksar [1].     

Optimal proportional reinsurance and investment with transaction costs, I: Maximizing the terminal wealth

We consider a problem of optimal reinsurance and investment with multiple risky assets for an insurance company whose surplus is governed by a linear diffusion. The insurance company’s risk can be reduced through reinsurance, while in addition the company invests its surplus in a financial market with one risk-free asset and n risky assets. In this paper, we consider the transaction costs when investing in the risky assets. Also, we use Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) to control the whole risk. We consider the optimization problem of maximizing the expected exponential utility of terminal wealth and solve it by using the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. Explicit expression for the optimal value function and the corresponding optimal strategies are obtained.     

Robust Optimal Investment Problem with Delay under Heston’s Model

This paper considers a robust optimal portfolio problem under Heston model in which the risky asset price is related to the historical performance. The finance market includes a riskless asset and a risky asset whose price is controlled by a stochastic delay equation. The objective is to choose the investment strategy to maximize the minimal expected utility of terminal wealth. By employing dynamic programming principle and Hamilton-Jacobin-Bellman (HJB) equation, we obtain the specific expression of the optimal control and the explicit solution of the corresponding HJB equation. Besides, a verification theorem is provided to ensure the value function is indeed the solution of the HJB equation. Finally, we use numerical examples to illustrate the relationship between the optimal strategy and parameters.

     

Robust optimal investment and reinsurance problem for a general insurance company under Heston model

In this paper, we study a robust optimal investment and reinsurance problem for a general insurance company which contains an insurer and a reinsurer. Assume that the claim process described by a Brownian motion with drift, the insurer can purchase proportional reinsurance from the reinsurer. Both the insurer and the reinsurer can invest in a financial market consisting of one risk-free asset and one risky asset whose price process is described by the Heston model. Besides, the general insurance company’s manager will search for a robust optimal investment and reinsurance strategy, since the general insurance company faces model uncertainty and its manager is ambiguity-averse in our assumption. The optimal decision is to maximize the minimal expected exponential utility of the weighted sum of the insurer’s and the reinsurer’s surplus processes. By using techniques of stochastic control theory, we give sufficient conditions under which the closed-form expressions for the robust optimal investment and reinsurance strategies and the corresponding value function are obtained.     

Optimal investment for the defined-contribution pension with stochastic salary under a CEV model

In this paper, we study the optimal investment strategy of defined-contribution pension with the stochastic salary. The investor is allowed to invest in a risk-free asset and a risky asset whose price process follows a constant elasticity of variance model. The stochastic salary follows a stochastic differential equation, whose instantaneous volatility changes with the risky asset price all the time. The HJB equation associated with the optimal investment problem is established, and the explicit solution of the corresponding optimization problem for the CARA utility function is obtained by applying power transform and variable change technique. Finally, we present a numerical analysis.     

Minimizing the ruin probability allowing investments in two assets: a two-dimensional problem

We consider in this paper that the reserve of an insurance company follows the classical model, in which the aggregate claim amount follows a compound Poisson process. Our goal is to minimize the ruin probability of the company assuming that the management can invest dynamically part of the reserve in an asset that has a positive fixed return. However, due to transaction costs, the sale price of the asset at the time when the company needs cash to cover claims is lower than the original price. This is a singular two-dimensional stochastic control problem which cannot be reduced to a one-dimensional problem. The associated Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman (HJB) equation is a variational inequality involving a first order integro-differential operator and a gradient constraint. We characterize the optimal value function as the unique viscosity solution of the associated HJB equation. For exponential claim distributions, we show that the optimal value function is induced by a two-region stationary strategy (“action” and “inaction” regions) and we find an implicit formula for the free boundary between these two regions. We also study the optimal strategy for small and large initial capital and show some numerical examples.     

Optimal dynamic excess-of-loss reinsurance and multidimensional portfolio selection

In this paper, the surplus process of the insurance company is described by a Brownian motion with drift. In addition, the insurer is allowed to invest in a risk-free asset and n risky assets and purchase excess-of-loss reinsurance. Under short-selling prohibition, we consider two optimization problems: the problem of maximizing the expected exponential utility of terminal wealth and the problem of minimizing the probability of ruin. We first show that the excess-of-loss reinsurance strategy is always better than the proportional reinsurance under two objective functions. Then, by solving the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations, the closed-form solutions of their optimal value functions and the corresponding optimal strategies are obtained. In particular, when there is no risky-free interest rate, the results indicate that the optimal strategies, under maximizing the expected exponential utility and minimizing the probability of ruin, are equivalent for some special parameter. This validates Ferguson’s longstanding conjecture about the relation between the two problems.     

An optimal investment strategy with maximal risk aversion and its ruin probability

In this paper we study an optimal investment problem of an insurer when the company has the opportunity to invest in a risky asset using stochastic control techniques. A closed form solution is given when the risk preferences are exponential as well as an estimate of the ruin probability when the optimal strategy is used. This work was partially supported by Grants IN103606 PAPIIT-UNAM, 37922E-CONACyT, and 61423-CONACYT Mexico.