Analysis on Rules of Investment Decision Based on Payback Period of Dynamic Investment

The index of payback period of dynamic investment is an improvement on index of payback period of static investment, which is the problem that the rules to evaluate the project are feasible or not. This paper proves that rules shall be apt when using payback period of dynamic investment to evaluate the project feasibility under the condition of keeping the dynamic evaluation index to evaluate the same scheme and the consistent feasibility.

Minimizing the Risk of Absolute Ruin Under a Diffusion Approximation Model with Reinsurance and Investment

This paper studies the optimization problem with both investment and proportional reinsurance control under the assumption that the surplus process of an insurance entity is represented by a pure diffusion process.The company can buy proportional reinsurance and invest its surplus into a Black-Scholes risky asset and a risk free asset without restrictions.The authors define absolute ruin as that the liminf of the surplus process is negative infinity and propose absolute ruin minimization as the optimization scenario.Applying the HJB method the authors obtain explicit expressions for the minimal absolute ruin function and the associated optimal investment strategy.The authors find that the minimal absolute ruin function here is convex,but not S-shaped investigated by Luo and Taksar(2011).And finally,from behavioral finance point of view,the authors come to the conclusion:It is the restrictions on investment that results in the kink of minimal absolute ruin function.

OPTIMAL INVESTMENT WITH NOISE TRADING RISK

This paper investigates the optimal dynamic investment for an investor who maximizes constant absolute risk aversion （CARA） utility in a discrete-time market with a riskfree bond and a risky stock. The risky stock is assumed to present both the dividend risk and the price risk. With our assumptions, the dividend risk is equivalent to fundamental risk, and the price risk is equivalent to the noise trading risk. The analytical expression for the optimal investment strategy is obtained by dynamic programming. The main result in this paper highlights the importance of differentiating between noise trading risk and fundamental risk for the optimal dynamic investment.

LEGENDRE TRANSFORM-DUAL SOLUTION FOR INVESTMENT AND CONSUMPTION PROBLEM UNDER THE VASICEK MODEL

This paper studies an investment and consumption problem with stochastic interest rate,where interest rate is governed by the Vasicek model.The financial market is composed of one riskfree asset and one risky asset,in which stock price dynamics is assumed to be generally correlated with interest rate dynamics.The aim is to maximize expected utility of consumption and terminal wealth in the finite horizon.Legendre transform is used to deal with this investment and consumption problem and the explicit solutions of the optimal investment and consumption strategies with power and logarithm preference are achieved.Finally,the authors add a numerical example to analyze the effect of market parameters on the optimal investment and consumption strategy and provide some economic implications.