Correlation of Brownian Motions and Its Impact on a Reinsurer’s Optimal Investment Strategy and Reinsured Proportion under Exponential Utility Maximization and Constant Elasticity of Variance Model
This work investigated a reinsurer’s optimal investment strategy and the pro-portion he accepted for reinsurance under proportional reinsurance and expo-nential utility preference in the cases where the Brownian motions were corre-lated and where they did not correlate. The reinsurer invested in a market in which the price process of the risky asset is governed by constant elasticity of variance (CEV) model. The required Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations (HJB) were derived using the Ito’s lemma from which the optimal investment strategy and reinsured proportion were calculated. Also investigated were the implications of the correlation coefficient.
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Ihedioha, S. A. (2018). Correlation of Brownian Motions and Its Impact on a Reinsurer’s Optimal Investment Strategy and Reinsured Proportion under Exponential Utility Maximization and Constant Elasticity of Variance Model. Open Access Library Journal, 5, e4954. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1104954.
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