不完全市场下基于对数效用的动态投资组合

应用鞅方法研究不完全市场下的动态投资组合优化问题。首先,通过降低布朗运动的维数将不完全金融市场转化为完全金融市场,并在转化后的完全金融市场里应用鞅方法研究对数效用函数下的动态投资组合问题,得到了最优投资策略的显示表达式。然后,根据转化后的完全金融市场与原不完全金融市场之间的参数关系,得到原不完全金融市场下的最优投资策略。算例分析比较了不完全金融市场与转化后的完全金融市场下最优投资策略的变化趋势,并与幂效用、指数效用下最优投资策略的变化趋势做了比较。     

Dynamic utility maximization with bounded shortfall risks

We address the dynamic portfolio optimization problem where the expected utility from terminal wealth has to be maximized. The special feature of this paper is an additional constraint on the portfolio strategy modeling bounded shortfall risks. We consider the risk, that the terminal wealth of the portfolio falls short of a certain benchmark. This benchmark is chosen to be proportional to the stock price. The risk is measured by the Expected Utility Loss. Using a continuous-time model of a complete financial market and applying martingale methods, analytic expressions for the optimal terminal wealth and the optimal portfolio strategies are given. (© 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Objective comparisons of the optimal portfolios corresponding to different utility functions

This paper considers the effects of some frequently used utility functions in portfolio selection by comparing the optimal investment outcomes corresponding to these utility functions. Assets are assumed to form a complete market of the Black–Scholes type. Under consideration are four frequently used utility functions: the power, logarithm, exponential and quadratic utility functions. To make objective comparisons, the optimal terminal wealths are derived by integration representation. The optimal strategies which yield optimal values are obtained by the integration representation of a Brownian martingale. The explicit strategy for the quadratic utility function is new. The strategies for other utility functions such as the power and the logarithm utility functions obtained this way coincide with known results obtained from Merton’s dynamic programming approach.     

Market Viability and Martingale Measures under Partial Information

We consider a financial market model with a single risky asset whose price process evolves according to a general jump-diffusion with locally bounded coefficients and where market participants have only access to a partial information flow. For any utility function, we prove that the partial information financial market is locally viable, in the sense that the optimal portfolio problem has a solution up to a stopping time, if and only if the (normalised) marginal utility of the terminal wealth generates a partial information equivalent martingale measure (PIEMM). This equivalence result is proved in a constructive way by relying on maximum principles for stochastic control problems under partial information. We then characterize a global notion of market viability in terms of partial information local martingale deflators (PILMDs). We illustrate our results by means of a simple example.     

Utility Indifference Pricing: A Time Consistent Approach

Abstract

This article considers the optimal portfolio selection problem in a dynamic multi-period stochastic framework with regime switching. The risk preferences are of exponential (CARA) type with an absolute coefficient of risk aversion that changes with the regime. The market model is incomplete and there are two risky assets: tradable and non-tradable. In this context, the optimal investment strategies are time inconsistent. Consequently, the subgame perfect equilibrium strategies are considered. The utility indifference ask price of a contingent claim written on the risky assets is computed through an indifference valuation algorithm. By running numerical experiments, we examine how this price varies in response to changes in model parameters.     

Data-Recursive Smoother Formulae for Partially Observed Discrete-Time Markov Chains

Abstract

We address a dynamic portfolio optimization problem where the expected utility from terminal wealth has to be maximized. The special feature of this paper is an additional constraint on the portfolio strategy modeling bounded shortfall risks, which are measured by value at risk or expected loss. Using a continuous-time model of a complete financial market and applying martingale methods, analytic expressions for the optimal terminal wealth and the optimal portfolio strategies are given. Finally, some numerical results are presented.     

Heston随机波动率模型下的资产负债管理问题

应用随机最优控制方法研究Heston随机波动率模型下带有负债过程的动态投资组合问题,其中假设股票价格服从Heston随机波动率模型,负债过程由带漂移的布朗运动所驱动.金融市场由一种无风险资产和一种风险资产组成.应用随机动态规划原理和变量替换法得出了上述问题在幂效用和指数效用函数下最优投资策略的显示解,并给出数值算例分别分析了市场参数在幂效用和指数效用函数下对最优投资策略的影响.     

具有不同效用函数的最优投资组合分析

The question of optimal portfolio is that finds the trading strategy satisfying the maximal expected utility function subject to some constraints. There is the optimal trading strategy under the risk neutral probability measure (martingale measure) if and only if there is no-arbitrage opportunity in the market. This paper argues the optimal wealth and the optimal value of expected utility with different utility function.     

Heston随机波动率市场中带VaR约束的最优投资策略

本文研究了Heston随机波动率市场下, 基于VaR约束下的动态最优投资组合问题。
假设Heston随机波动率市场由一个无风险资产和一个风险资产构成,投资者的目标为最大化其终端的期望效用。与此同时, 投资者将动态地评估其待选的投资组合的VaR风险,并将其控制在一个可接受的范围之内。本文在合理的假设下,使用动态规划的方法,来求解该问题的最优投资策略。在特定的参数范围内,利用数值方法计算出近似的最优投资策略和相应值函数, 并对结果进行了分析。     

Utility maximization in markets with bid–ask spreads

A one-period financial market model with transaction costs is considered in this paper. Redefining the risky asset price process in a suitable way, we obtain an explicit solution to the utility maximization problem when the risk preferences of the investor are based on the exponential utility function and a liability can be included in her portfolio. The arbitrage-free interval price for a general liability, as well as its replication price, is characterized in terms of expectations with respect to equivalent martingale measures. The indifference price is derived and its asymptotic limit when the risk aversion is going to infinity is analysed.     

Optimal portfolio strategies benchmarking the stock market

The paper investigates the impact of adding a shortfall risk constraint to the problem of a portfolio manager who wishes to maximize his utility from the portfolios terminal wealth. Since portfolio managers are often evaluated relative to benchmarks which depend on the stock market we capture risk management considerations by allowing a prespecified risk of falling short such a benchmark. This risk is measured by the expected loss in utility. Using the Black–Scholes model of a complete financial market and applying martingale methods, explicit analytic expressions for the optimal terminal wealth and the optimal portfolio strategies are given. Numerical examples illustrate the analytic results.     

Efficient portfolios in financial markets with proportional transaction costs

In this article, we characterize efficient portfolios, i.e. portfolios which are optimal for at least one rational agent, in a very general multi-currency financial market model with proportional transaction costs. In our setting, transaction costs may be random, time-dependent, have jumps and the preferences of the agents are modeled by multivariate expected utility functions. We provide a complete characterization of efficient portfolios, generalizing earlier results of Dybvig (Rev Financ Stud 1:67–88, 1988) and Jouini and Kallal (J Econ Theory 66: 178–197, 1995). We basically show that a portfolio is efficient if and only if it is cyclically anticomonotonic with respect to at least one consistent price system that prices it. Finally, we introduce the notion of utility price of a given contingent claim as the minimal amount of a given initial portfolio allowing any agent to reach the claim by trading, and give a dual representation of it as the largest proportion of the market price necessary for all agents to reach the same expected utility level.     

Optimal dynamic asset allocation of pension fund in mortality and salary risks framework

In this paper, we consider the optimal dynamic asset allocation of pension fund with mortality risk and salary risk. The managers of the pension fund try to find the optimal investment policy (optimal asset allocation) to maximize the expected utility of terminal wealth. The market is a combination of financial market and insurance market. The financial market consists of three assets: cashes with stochastic interest rate, stocks and rolling bonds, while the insurance market consists of mortality risk and salary risk. These two non-hedging risks cause incompleteness of the market. By martingale method and dynamic programming principle we first derive the approximate optimal investment policy to overcome the difficulty, then investigate the efficiency of the approximation. Finally, we solve an optimal assets liabilities management(ALM) problem with mortality risk and salary risk under CRRA utility, and reveal the influence of these two risks on the optimal investment policy by numerical illustration.     

Optimal investment with deferred capital gains taxes

We solve the optimal portfolio problem of an investor in a complete market who is liable to deferred taxes due on capital gains, irrespective of their origin. In a Brownian framework we explicitly determine optimal strategies. Our analysis is based on a modification of the standard martingale method applied to the after-tax utility function, which exhibits a kink at the level of initial wealth, and Clark’s formula. Numerical results show that the Merton strategy is close to optimal under taxation.     

Conditions for optimality in the infinite-horizon portfolio-cum-saving problem with semimartingale investments

A model of optimal accumulation of capital and portfolio choice over an infinite horizon in continuous time is formulated in which the vector process representing returns to investments isa general semimartingale. Methods of stochastic calculus and calculus of variations are used to obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for optimality involving martingale properties ofthe shadow price processes associated with alternative portfolio cum saving plans.The relationship between such conditions and portfolio equations is investigated.The results are appliedtospecial cases where the returns process has stationary independent increments and the utility function has the discounted relative risk aversion form     

On the pricing of American contingent claims under transaction costs and multiple risky assets

This paper addresses the hedging problem of American Contingents Claims (ACCs) in the framework of continuous-time Itô models for financial market. The special feature of this paper is that in the financial market the investor has to face fixed and proportional transaction costs when trading multiple risky assets. By using the auxiliary martingale approach and extending the results of Cvitanic and Karatzas [Cvitanic J, Karatzas I. Hedging and portfolio optimization under transaction costs: a martingale approach. Math Finance 1996;6:135–65] on pricing European contingent with transaction costs in the single-stock market, an arbitrage-free interval [h_low, h_up] is identified, and the end points are characterized by auxiliary martingales and stopping times in terms of auxiliary stochastic control problems. Here h_up and h_low are so-called the upper hedging price and the lower hedging price.     

Utility-based indifference pricing in regime-switching models

In this paper, we study utility-based indifference pricing and hedging of a contingent claim in a continuous-time, Markov, regime-switching model. The market in this model is incomplete, so there is more than one price kernel. We specify the parametric form of price kernels so that both market risk and economic risk are taken into account. The pricing and hedging problem is formulated as a stochastic optimal control problem and is discussed using the dynamic programming approach. A verification theorem for the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) solution to the problem is given. An issuer’s price kernel is obtained from a solution of a system of linear programming problems and an optimal hedged portfolio is determined.     

均值方差偏好和期望损失风险约束下的动态投资组合

本文在均值方差框架下,研究了期望损失风险约束下的连续时间动态投资组合问题。运用鞅理论和凸对偶方法,分别给出了最优财富和最优投资策略的解析式,而且两基金分离定理仍然成立。最后通过数值例子分析了风险约束对最优投资策略的影响。     

An Asymptotic Expansion Scheme for Optimal Investment Problems

We shall propose a new computational scheme for the evaluation of the optimal portfolio for investment. Our method is based on an extension of the asymptotic expansion approach which has been recently developed for pricing problems of the contingent claims’ analysis by Kunitomo and Takahashi (1992, 1995, 2001, 2003), Yoshida (1992), Takahashi (1995, 1999), Takahashi and Yoshida (2001). In particular, we will explicitly derive a formula of the optimal portfolio associated with maximizing utility from terminal wealth in a financial market with Markovian coefficients, and give a numerical example for a power utility function. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Dynamic portfolio selection with market impact costs

This paper concerns optimal dynamic portfolio choice with quadratic utility when there are market impact costs. The optimal policy is difficult to characterize, so we look instead for sub-optimal policies. Our proposed suboptimal policy solves a tractable dynamic portfolio choice problem where the cost of trading is captured in the objective instead of the price dynamics. A multiple time scale asymptotic expansion shows that our proposed policy has sensible structural properties, while numerical experiments show promising performance and robustness properties.