Consider a lump-sum pension fund problem, in which an agent deposits an amount with a fund manager up front and is later repaid a lump sum x(T) after time T. The fund manager may be both cautious in seeking a payoff x(T) meeting a certain target, but relaxed toward the possibility of exceeding...

Computing the solution to a stochastic optimal control problem is difficult. A method of approximating a solution to a given stochatic optimal problem was developed in [1]. This paper describes a suite of Matlab functions implementing this method of approximating a solution to a given continuous...

Strategies for constructing a Markov decision chain approximating a continuous-time finite-horizon optimal control problem are investigated. Some simple, analytically soluble, examples are treated and low computational complexity is reported. Extensions to the method and implementation are...