Optimal investment and proportional reinsurance under no short-selling and no borrowing. (English) Zbl 1243.93139

Zhang, Jingxiao; Liu, Sheng; Kannan, D.

Dyn. Syst. Appl. 20, No. 2-3, 205-222 (2011).

Summary: Insurance companies resort to investment and reinsurance, among other options, to manage their reserves. This article addresses the problem of optimal investment and reinsurance when no short-selling and no borrowing allowed. More specifically, we assume that the risk process of the insurance company is a compound Poisson process perturbed by a standard Brownian motion and that the risk can be reduced through a proportional reinsurance. In addition, the surplus can be invested in the financial market such that the portfolio will consist, for simplicity, of one risky asset and one risk-free asset. Our goal is to find the optimal investment and reinsurance policy which can maximize the expected exponential utility of the terminal wealth. In the case of no short-selling, we find the closed form of value function as well as the optimal investment-reinsurance policy. In the case when neither short-selling nor borrowing allowed, the resulting HJB equation is difficult to solve analytically, and hence we provide a numerical solution through Markov chain approximation techniques.

MSC:

93E20	Optimal stochastic control
60H30	Applications of stochastic analysis (to PDEs, etc.)
60H10	Stochastic ordinary differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis)
91B30	Risk theory, insurance (MSC2010)

Keywords:

investment and reinsurance; risk process of insurance company; compound Poisson process; pertubation; standard Brownian motion