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Time-Consistent Portfolio Management

Abstract

This paper considers the portfolio management problem for an investor with finite time horizon who is allowed to consume and take out life insurance. Natural assumptions, such as different discount rates for consumption and life insurance, lead to time inconsistency. This situation can also arise when the investor is in fact a group, the members of which have different utilities and/or different discount rates. As a consequence, the optimal …

Authors

Ekeland I; Mbodji O; Pirvu TA

Journal

SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1–32

Publisher

Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Publication Date

January 2012

DOI

10.1137/100810034

ISSN

1945-497X