Optimal investment–reinsurance strategy for mean–variance insurers with square-root factor process

Yang Shen and Yan Zeng

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2015, vol. 62, issue C, 118-137

Abstract: This paper studies an optimal investment–reinsurance problem for an insurer with a surplus process represented by the Cramér–Lundberg model. The insurer is assumed to be a mean–variance optimizer. The financial market consists of one risk-free asset and one risky asset. The market price of risk depends on a Markovian, affine-form, square-root stochastic factor process, while the volatility and appreciation rate of the risky asset are given by non-Markovian, unbounded processes. The insurer faces the decision-making problem of choosing to purchase reinsurance, acquire new business and invest its surplus in the financial market such that the mean and variance of its terminal wealth is maximized and minimized simultaneously. We adopt a backward stochastic differential equation approach to solve the problem. Closed-form expressions for the efficient frontier and efficient strategy of the mean–variance problem are derived. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate our results in two special cases, the constant elasticity of variance model and Heston’s model.

Keywords: Investment–reinsurance; Mean–variance criterion; Backward stochastic differential equation; Efficient strategy; Efficient frontier (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.insmatheco.2015.03.009

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