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We describe a framework for the valuation of insurance liabilities that relies on first principles in finance theory …
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Replicating portfolios have recently emerged as an important tool in the life insurance industry, used for the … valuation of companies' liabilities. This paper presents a replicating portfolio (RP) model for approximating life insurance … liabilities as closely as possible. We minimize the L1 error between the discounted life insurance liability cash flows and the …
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In this paper we consider an alternative dividend payment strategy in risk theory, where the dividend rate can never …
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We propose that investment strategies should be evaluated based on their net-of-trading-cost return for each level of risk, which we term the "implementable efficient frontier." While numerous studies use machine learning return forecasts to generate portfolios, their agnosticism toward trading...
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We construct portfolios with an alternative selection criterion, the Omega function, which can be expressed as the ratio of two partial moments of the returns distribution. Finding Omega-optimal portfolios, in particular under realistic constraints like cardinality restrictions, requires to...
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This chapter gives an overview of current research in evolutionary finance. We mainly focus on the survival and stability properties of investment strategies associated with the Kelly rule. Our approach to the study of the wealth dynamics of investment strategies is inspired by Darwinian ideas...
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at the expense of a more widespread distribution. Dybvig and Wang [J. Econ. Theory, 2011, to appear] find that this idea …
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. We also clarify the connection between shadow prices and duality theory. Whereas dual minimizers need not lead to shadow …
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The Markowitz problem consists of finding in a financial market a self-financing trading strategy whose final wealth has maximal mean and minimal variance. We study this in continuous time in a general semimartingale model and under cone constraints: Trading strategies must take values in a...
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We solve the problem of mean-variance hedging for general semimartingale models via stochastic control methods. After proving that the value process of the associated stochastic control problem has a quadratic structure, we characterise its three coefficient processes as solutions of...
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