Expected Power Utility Maximization of Insurers

Hiroaki Hata () and Kazuhiro Yasuda ()
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Hiroaki Hata: Hitotsubashi University
Kazuhiro Yasuda: Hosei university

Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, 2024, vol. 31, issue 3, No 5, 543-577

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we are interested in the optimal investment and reinsurance strategies of an insurer who wishes to maximize the expected power utility of its terminal wealth on finite time horizon. We are also interested in the problem of maximizing the growth rate of expected power utility per unit time on the infinite time horizon. The risk process of the insurer is described by an approximation of the classical Cramér–Lundberg process. The insurer invests in a market consisting of a bank account and multiple risky assets. The mean returns of the risky assets depend linearly on economic factors that are formulated as the solutions of linear stochastic differential equations. With this setting, Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equations that are derived via a dynamic programming approach have explicit solution obtained by solving a matrix Riccati equation. Hence, the optimal investment and reinsurance strategies can be constructed explicitly. Finally, we present some numerical results related to properties of our optimal strategy and the ruin probability using the optimal strategy.

Keywords: Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation; Power utility; Risk process; Stochastic control; Stochastic factor model; 93E20; 91B16; 49L20; 60J70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 G11 G22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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