The current paper presents a short survey of stochastic models of risk control and dividend optimization techniques for a financial corporation. While being close to consumption/investment models of Mathematical Finance, dividend optimization models possess special features which do not allow...

The current paper presents a short survey of stochastic models of risk control and dividend optimization techniques for a financial corporation. While being close to consumption/investment models of Mathematical Finance, dividend optimization models possess special features which do not allow...

We consider a large insurance company whose surplus (reserve) is modeled by a Brownian motion. The company invests its surplus in stock market assets which may or may not contain an element of risk. To minimize the insurance risk there is a possibility to reinsure a part or the whole insurance...