We examine the maximization problem of performance measure of financial structured products. For this purpose, we introduce the Kappa ratios, based on downside risk measures which take account of the asymmetry of the return probability distribution. First, we deal with the optimization of some...

This paper examines the equilibrium of portfolio under insurance constraints on the terminal wealth. We consider a single period economy in which agents search to maximize the expected utilities of their terminal wealths. Both partial and general optimal financial equilibria are determined and...