Optimal Investment under Risk Constraints
Speaker:
Traian Pirvu, McMaster University
Date and Time:
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 2:50pm to 3:40pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
We study the problem of optimal investment subject to risk constraints: Value-at-Risk, Average Value at Risk and Limited Expected Loss. We get closed-form solutions for this problem, and find that the optimal policy is a projection of the optimal portfolio of an unconstrained log agent (the Merton proportion) onto the constraint set, with respect to the inner product induced by the variance-covariance volatilities matrix of the risky assets. We also perform a robust analysis. We find that a trader subject to Value-at-Risk and Tail Value-at-Risk is allowed to incur some risk. A trader faced with the Limited Expected Loss constraint behaves more conservatively and does not exhibit the above behaviour