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 th...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.展开更多
This paper considers the optimal investment strategy for an insurer under the criterion of mean-variance. The risk process is a compound Poisson process and the insurer can invest in a risk-free asset and multiple ris...This paper considers the optimal investment strategy for an insurer under the criterion of mean-variance. The risk process is a compound Poisson process and the insurer can invest in a risk-free asset and multiple risky assets. This paper obtains the optimal investment policy using the stochastic linear quadratic （LQ） control theory with no-shorting constraint. Then the efficient strategy （optimal investment strategy） and efficient frontier are derived explicitly by a verification theorem with the viscosity solution of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman （HJB） equation.展开更多
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 ...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.展开更多
In this paper, the surplus process is assumed to be a periodic risk model and the insurer is allowed to invest in multiple risky assets described by the Black-Scholes market model. Under shortselling prohibition, the ...In this paper, the surplus process is assumed to be a periodic risk model and the insurer is allowed to invest in multiple risky assets described by the Black-Scholes market model. Under shortselling prohibition, the authors consider the optimal investment from an insurer＇s point of view by maximizing the adjustment coefficent and the expected exponential utility of wealth at one period, respectively. It is shown that the optimal strategies of both of optimization problems are to invest a fixed amount of money in each risky asset.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.11201335 and 11301376
文摘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.
基金This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 10871102 and Speaialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education under Grant No. 20090031110001.
文摘This paper considers the optimal investment strategy for an insurer under the criterion of mean-variance. The risk process is a compound Poisson process and the insurer can invest in a risk-free asset and multiple risky assets. This paper obtains the optimal investment policy using the stochastic linear quadratic （LQ） control theory with no-shorting constraint. Then the efficient strategy （optimal investment strategy） and efficient frontier are derived explicitly by a verification theorem with the viscosity solution of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman （HJB） equation.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.11101215the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China under Grant No. 09KJB110004
文摘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.
基金supported by National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program) under Grant No. 2007CB814905the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.11171164
文摘In this paper, the surplus process is assumed to be a periodic risk model and the insurer is allowed to invest in multiple risky assets described by the Black-Scholes market model. Under shortselling prohibition, the authors consider the optimal investment from an insurer＇s point of view by maximizing the adjustment coefficent and the expected exponential utility of wealth at one period, respectively. It is shown that the optimal strategies of both of optimization problems are to invest a fixed amount of money in each risky asset.
