Portfolio Optimization under Convex Incentive Schemes

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2011-09-13

arxiv.org/abs/1109.2945v3

Economy

Quantitative Finance

Portfolio Management

18 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

We consider the utility maximization problem of terminal wealth from the point of view of a portfolio manager paid by an incentive scheme given as a convex function $g$ of the terminal wealth. The manager's own utility function $U$ is assumed to be smooth and strictly concave, however the resulting utility function $U \circ g$ fails to be concave. As a consequence, this problem does not fit into the classical portfolio optimization theory. Using duality theory, we prove wealth-independent existence and uniqueness of the optimal wealth in general (incomplete) semimartingale markets as long as the unique optimizer of the dual problem has a continuous law. In many cases, this fact is independent of the incentive scheme and depends only on the structure of the set of equivalent local martingale measures. As examples we discuss (complete) one-dimensional models as well as (incomplete) lognormal mixture models. We provide also a detailed analysis of the case when this criterium fails, leading to optimization problems whose solvability by duality methods depends on the initial wealth of the investor.

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