Optimal proportional reinsurance and dividend payments with transaction costs and internal competition

We study the dividend optimization problem for an insurance company under the consideration of internal competition between different units inside company and transaction costs when dividends occur. The management of the company controls the reinsurance rate, the timing and the amount of dividends paid out to maximize the expected total dividends paid out to the shareholders until ruin time. By solving the corresponding quasi-variational inequality, we obtain the optimal return function and the optimal strategy.

Martingale method for optimal investment and proportional reinsurance

Numerous researchers have applied the martingale approach for models driven by L¶evy processes to study optimal investment problems.This paper considers an insurer who wants to maximize the expected utility of terminal wealth by selecting optimal investment and proportional reinsurance strategies.The insurer's risk process is modeled by a L¶evy process and the capital can be invested in a security market described by the standard Black-Scholes model.By the martingale approach,the closed-form solutions to the problems of expected utility maximization are derived.Numerical examples are presented to show the impact of model parameters on the optimal strategies.

Optimal Proportional Reinsurance for Controlled Risk Process which is Perturbed by Diffusion

In this paper, we study optimal proportional reinsurance policy of an insurer with a risk process which is perturbed by a diffusion. We derive closed-form expressions for the policy and the value function, which are optimal in the sense of maximizing the expected utility in the jump-diffusion framework. We also obtain explicit expressions for the policy and the value function, which are optimal in the sense of maximizing the expected utility or maximizing the survival probability in the diffusion approximation case. Some numerical examples are presented, which show the impact of model parameters on the policy. We also compare the results under the different criteria and different cases.

OPTIMAL PROPORTIONAL REINSURANCE UNDER DEPENDENT RISKS

This paper considers a correlated risk model with thinning-dependence structure. The au- thors investigate the optimal proportional reinsurance that maximizes the adjustment coefficient and the optimal proportional reinsurance under mean variance principle for the proposed model. The au- thors derive the optimal solutions and the numerical illustrations to show the impact of the dependence among the classes of business on the optimal reinsurance arrangements.

OPTIMAL INVESTMENT AND PROPORTIONAL REINSURANCE IN THE SPARRE ANDERSEN MODEL

From the insurer＇s point of view, this paper studies the optimal investment and proportional reinsurance in the Sparre Andersen model. Under the criterion of maximizing the adjustment coefficient, the authors obtain the closed form expressions of the optimal strategy and the maximal adjustment coefficient, and derive the explicit expression of the ruin probability or its lower bound when the claim sizes are exponentially distributed. Some numerical examples are presented, which show the impact of model parameters on the optimal values. It can also be seen that the optimal strategy to maximize the adjustment coefficient is sometimes equivalent to those which minimize the ruin probability.

THE OPTIMAL STRATEGY FOR INSURANCE COMPANY UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF TERMINAL VALUE

This paper considers a model of an insurance company which is allowed to invest a risky asset and to purchase proportional reinsurance. The objective is to find the policy which maximizes the expected total discounted dividend pay-out until the time of bankruptcy and the terminal value of the company under liquidity constraint. We find the solution of this problem via solving the problem with zero terminal value. We also analyze the influence of terminal value on the optimal policy.

Optimal Dividend and Dynamic Reinsurance Strategies with Capital Injections and Proportional Costs

We consider an optimization problem of an insurance company in the diffusion setting, which controls the dividends payout as well as the capital injections. To maximize the cumulative expected discounted dividends minus the penalized discounted capital injections until the ruin time, there is a possibility of （cheap or non-cheap） proportional reinsurance. We solve the control problems by constructing two categories of suboptimal models, one without capital injections and one with no bankruptcy by capital injection. Then we derive the explicit solutions for the value function and totally characterize the optimal strategies. Particularly, for cheap reinsurance, they axe the same as those in the model of no bankruptcy.

Optimal Reinsurance and Investment Strategies for Insurers with Regime-Switching and State-Dependent Utility Function

This paper considers a proportional reinsurance-investment problem and an excess-of-loss reinsurance-investment problem for an insurer,where price processes of the risky assets and wealth process of the insurer are both described by Markovian regime switching.The target of the insurer is assumed to maximize the expected exponential utility from her terminal wealth with a state-dependent utility function.By employing the dynamic programming approach,the optimal value functions and the optimal reinsurance-investment strategies are derived.In addition,the impact of some parameters on the optimal strategies and the optimal value functions is analyzed,and lots of interesting results are discovered,such as the conclusion that excess-of-loss reinsurance is better than proportional reinsurance is not held in the regime-switching jump-diffusion model.

Optimal Reinsurance and Investment Policies with the CEV Stock Market

In this paper, under the criterion of maximizing the expected exponential utility of terminal wealth, we study the optimal proportional reinsurance and investment policy for an insurer with the compound Poisson claim process. We model the price process of the risky asset to the constant elasticity of variance （for short, CEV） model, and consider net profit condition and variance reinsurance premium principle in our work. Using stochastic control theory, we derive explicit expressions for the optimal policy and value function. And some numerical examples are given.

Optimal Reinsurance and Dividend Under Model Uncertainty

In this paper,the authors analyze the optimal reinsurance and dividend problem with model uncertainty for an insurer.Here the model uncertainty represents possible deviations between the real market and the assumed model.In addition to the incorporation of model uncertainty into the traditional diffusion surplus process,the authors include a penalty function in the objective function.The proposed goal is to find the optimal reinsurance and dividend strategy that maximizes the expected discounted dividend before ruin in the worst case of all possible scenarios,namely,the worst market.Using a dynamic programming approach,the problem is reduced to solving a Hamilton-Jacob-Bellman-Isaac(HJBI)equation with singular control.This problem is more difficult than the traditional robust control or singular control problem.Here,the authors prove that the value function is the unique solution to this HJBI equation with singular control.Moreover,the authors present a verification theorem when a smooth solution can be found,and derive closed-form solution when the function in the objective function is specified.

Optimal Reinsurance and Investment Strategy with Delay in Heston’s SV Model

In this paper,we consider an optimal investment and proportional reinsurance problem with delay,in which the insurer’s surplus process is described by a jump-diffusion model.The insurer can buy proportional reinsurance to transfer part of the insurance claims risk.In addition to reinsurance,she also can invests her surplus in a financial market,which is consisted of a risk-free asset and a risky asset described by Heston’s stochastic volatility(SV)model.Considering the performance-related capital flow,the insurer’s wealth process is modeled by a stochastic differential delay equation.The insurer’s target is to find the optimal investment and proportional reinsurance strategy to maximize the expected exponential utility of combined terminal wealth.We explicitly derive the optimal strategy and the value function.Finally,we provide some numerical examples to illustrate our results.

Optimal Investment Problem for an Insurer and a Reinsurer

This paper studies the optimal investment problem for an insurer and a reinsurer. The basic claim process is assumed to follow a Brownian motion with drift and the insurer can purchase proportional reinsurance from the reinsurer. The insurer and the reinsurer are allowed to invest in a risk-free asset and a risky asset. Moreover, the authors consider the correlation between the claim process and the price process of the risky asset. The authors first study the optimization problem of maximizing the expected exponential utility of terminal wealth for the insurer. Then with the optimal reinsurance strategy chosen by the insurer, the authors consider two optimization problems for the reinsurer： The problem of maximizing the expected exponential utility of terminal wealth and the problem of minimizing the ruin probability. By solving the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations, the authors derive the optimal reinsurance and investment strategies, explicitly. Finally, the authors illustrate the equality of the reinsurer＇s optimal investment strategies under the two cases.

The Optimal Policy for Insurance Company Under Consideration of Internal Competition and the Time Value of Ruin

This paper considers the dividend optimization problem for an insurance company under the consideration of internal competition between different units inside the company. The objective is to find a reinsurance policy and a dividend payment scheme so as to maximize the expected discounted value of the dividend payment, and the expected present value of an amount which the insurer earns until the time of ruin. By solving the corresponding constrained Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman （HJB） equation, we obtain the value function and the optimal reinsurance policy and dividend payment.