A cardinality-constrained portfolio caps the number of stocks to be traded across and within groups or sectors. These limitations arise from real-world scenarios faced by fund managers, who are constrained by transaction costs and client preferences as they seek to maximize return and limit...

Investors often control risk exposure by trading options. This article studies the optimal strategy for liquidating an option position. Under both complete and incomplete market settings, we quantify the value of optimally timing to liquidate, and identify the situations where it is optimal to...

We propose a flexible framework for hedging a contingent claim by holding static positions in vanilla European calls, puts, bonds, and forwards. A model-free expression is derived for the optimal static hedging strategy that minimizes the expected squared hedging error subject to a cost...