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48 results for Risk-averse investor

New model considers wealth and time affecting risk aversion in portfolio selection.

problem Optimal investment strategy and consumption process depend on wealth and future income balance.
method Proposed a new mean-variance-utility framework with time and state-dependent risk aversion, solved using game theory.
result Equilibrium investment and consumption policies derived, aligning with investor behavior.

Optimal wind farm placement using quantile constraints for better power output.

problem Optimizing wind farm placement to maximize power output considering spatial and temporal wind speed correlations.
method Used a probabilistic neural network with ReLU activation functions to reformulate constraints as linear ones, embedding them into a two-stage stochastic optimization problem.
result The constraint learning approach outperforms classical methods, especially for risk-averse investors.

Investors with anxiety about drawdowns may use stop-loss and trailing stops as optimal selling strategies.

problem Investors' anxiety about drawdowns affects optimal selling strategies.
method Mathematical analysis of optimal stopping with random discounting.
result Stop-loss and trailing stops can be optimal selling strategies under anxiety about drawdowns.

We extend the theory of asymmetric information in mispricing models for stocks following geometric Brownian motion to constant relative risk averse investors. Mispricing follows a continuous mean--reverting Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process. Optimal portfolios and maximum expected log--linear utilities from terminal wealth f…

2011-01-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Derives a new formula for measuring risk aversion in markets.

problem Measuring the degree of risk aversion in markets accurately.
method Closed-form expression based on three variables: Treasury yields, returns, and market capitalization.
result Investors exhibit Decreasing Absolute Risk Aversion (DARA) but the degree of Relative Risk Aversion (RRA) varies.

Study on optimal fees in hedge funds with first-loss compensation.

problem Determining the best fee structure for hedge funds with first-loss compensation.
method Solved the manager's non-concave utility maximization problem, calculated Pareto optimal first-loss schemes, and maximized a decision criterion on this set.
result Traditional fees are not Pareto optimal, and the preferred first-loss coverage guarantee varies with investor and market factors.

Consider an investor trading dynamically to maximize expected utility from terminal wealth. Our aim is to study the dependence between her risk aversion and the distribution of the optimal terminal payoff. Economic intuition suggests that high risk aversion leads to a rather concentrated distribution, whereas lower ris…

2011-04-05abs ↗pdf ↗

In an incomplete market, including liquidly-traded European options in an investment portfolio could potentially improve the expected terminal utility for a risk-averse investor. However, unlike the Sharpe ratio, which provides a concise measure of the relative investment attractiveness of different underlying risky as…

2019-08-13abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper the fractional trading ansatz of money management is reconsidered with special attention to chance and risk parts in the goal function of the related optimization problem. By changing the goal function with due regards to other risk measures like current drawdowns, the optimal fraction solutions reflect t…

2016-12-09abs ↗pdf ↗

The study infers risk preferences from portfolio choices and measures portfolio efficiency.

problem Measuring the efficiency of household investment portfolios based on risk preferences.
method Statistical analysis of portfolio choices and demographic information over six years.
result Implied risk aversion increases with wealth and financial literacy, impacting portfolio efficiency.

Study optimal liquidation under high risk aversion and small price impact.

problem Optimal liquidation of options under high risk aversion and linear price impact.
method Analyzes Bachelier model with linear price impact, computes utility indifference prices, and finds asymptotically optimal portfolios.
result Establishes a scaling limit for vanishing price impact and computes corresponding utility indifference prices.

Optimal liquidation strategy for a risk-averse investor in a one-sided limit order book driven by a Levy process.

problem Balancing market risk and execution cost for a large share liquidation.
method Modeling the price process as a Levy process and solving a singular two-dimensional optimisation problem.
result Explicit expression for the optimal intervention boundary.

Is the elasticity of intertemporal substitution (EIS) more or less than one? This question can be answered by confronting theoretical results of asset pricing models with investor behaviour during episodes of stock market panic. If we consider these episodes as periods of high risk aversion, then lower asset prices are…

2015-05-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Study improves portfolio optimization for Indonesian banks using robust methods.

problem Uncertainty in historical return and risk estimates leads to suboptimal portfolios.
method Robust optimization with moving-window and bootstrapping methods.
result Moving-window method with smaller risk-aversion parameter provides better risk-return trade-off.

This paper solves optimal consumption-investment choices with wealth-driven risk aversion using neural networks.

problem Optimal consumption-investment choices under wealth-driven risk aversion.
method Neural network LSTM trained on jump-diffusion model data to optimize investment rate and consumption.
result Neural network approach shows promising results in solving the investment problem.

For an investor with constant absolute risk aversion and a long horizon, who trades in a market with constant investment opportunities and small proportional transaction costs, we obtain explicitly the optimal investment policy, its implied welfare, liquidity premium, and trading volume. We identify these quantities as…

2011-10-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider a market consisting of one safe and one risky asset, which offer constant investment opportunities. Taking into account both proportional transaction costs and linear price impact, we derive optimal rebalancing policies for representative investors with constant relative risk aversion and a long horizon.

2014-02-21abs ↗pdf ↗

An investor with constant relative risk aversion trades a safe and several risky assets with constant investment opportunities. For a small fixed transaction cost, levied on each trade regardless of its size, we explicitly determine the leading-order corrections to the frictionless value function and optimal policy.

2013-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Study analyzes market equilibrium returns with price impact and transaction costs.

problem Modeling equilibrium returns in markets with strategic order placement and transaction costs.
method Analyzes frictionless and transaction-cost markets, characterizes Nash equilibrium via FBSDEs.
result Equilibrium returns are affected by transaction costs, especially with noise traders.

Artificial intelligence, or AI, enhancements are increasingly shaping our daily lives. Financial decision-making is no exception to this. We introduce the notion of AI Alter Egos, which are shadow robo-investors, and use a unique data set covering brokerage accounts for a large cross-section of investors over a sample …

2019-07-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a new class of forward performance processes for investment pools.

problem Investment performance in market models with continuous semimartingale stock prices.
method Constructs a broad class of forward performance processes with power mixture initial conditions.
result Characterizes and derives properties of two-power mixture forward performance processes.

Investor optimizes portfolio under dynamic risk preferences.

problem Optimizing investment under uncertain future risk attitudes.
method Developed a general equilibrium framework and solved for subgame-perfect equilibrium policies.
result Equilibrium policies include a novel hedging component to counteract anticipated risk aversion changes.

Default risk significantly affects the corporate policies of a firm. We develop a model in which a limited liability entity subject to Poisson default shock jointly sets its dividend policy and capital structure to maximize the expected lifetime utility from consumption of risk averse equity investors. We give a comple…

2018-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We develop a finite horizon continuous time market model, where risk averse investors maximize utility from terminal wealth by dynamically investing in a risk-free money market account, a stock written on a default-free dividend process, and a defaultable bond, whose prices are determined via equilibrium. We analyze fi…

2011-08-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Investment strategy in uncertain markets improved by learning and risk-ambiguity preferences.

problem Investment in financial markets with unknown drift coefficients.
method Optimization under KMM approach, considering risk and ambiguity preferences.
result Optimal investment strategy can be adjusted based on prior drift distribution.

We consider infinite dimensional optimization problems motivated by the financial model called Arbitrage Pricing Theory. Using probabilistic and functional analytic tools, we provide a dual characterization of the super-replication cost. Then, we show the existence of optimal strategies for investors maximizing their e…

2019-04-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Assuming that agents' preferences satisfy first-order stochastic dominance, we show how the Expected Utility paradigm can rationalize all optimal investment choices: the optimal investment strategy in any behavioral law-invariant (state-independent) setting corresponds to the optimum for an expected utility maximizer w…

2013-02-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Investor optimizes investment and consumption under uncertain market conditions with constraints.

problem Investor optimizes investment and consumption in a stochastic environment with model uncertainty and constraints.
method Robust control problem solved using stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman-Isaacs equations, backward stochastic differential equations, and bounded mean oscillation martingale theory.
result Investor incurs utility loss when ignoring model uncertainty, and constraints impact optimal strategy and value function.