In this paper, we study an optimal investment problem under joint initial-time and intermediate-time Value-at-Risk regulations and a portfolio insurance (PI) constraint on terminal wealth faced by a defined-contribution pension fund manager. The objective is to maximize the expected utility from...

Quantifying the economic capital and optimally allocating it into portfolios of financial instruments are two key topics in the asset/liability management (ALM) of an insurance company. In general these problems are studied in the literature by minimizing standard risk measures such as the value...

This paper studies the mean-variance portfolio selection under the assumption that the market state is modulated by a hidden Markov chain which is unobservable to investors. We employ a game-theoretic formulation to address the time-inconsistency arising in mean-variance analysis for portfolio...