Modern Stochastics: Theory and Applications

Obtaining a utility-maximizing optimal portfolio in a closed form is a challenging issue when the return vector follows a more general distribution than the normal one. In this paper, for markets based on finitely many assets, a closed-form expression is given for optimal portfolios that maximize an exponential utility function when the return vector follows normal mean-variance mixture models. Especially, the used approach expresses the closed-form solution in terms of the Laplace transformation of the mixing distribution of the normal mean-variance mixture model and no distributional assumptions on the mixing distribution are made.

In the present paper the change of measures technique for compound mixed renewal processes, developed in Tzaninis and Macheras [ArXiv:2007.05289 (2020) 1–25], is applied to the ruin problem in order to obtain an explicit formula for the probability of ruin in a mixed renewal risk model and to find upper and lower bounds for it.

We find the best approximation of the fractional Brownian motion with the Hurst index $H\in (0,1/2)$ by Gaussian martingales of the form ${\textstyle\int _{0}^{t}}{s^{\gamma }}d{W_{s}}$, where W is a Wiener process, $\gamma >0$.

Using martingale methods, we provide bounds for the entropy of a probability measure on ${\mathbb{R}}^{d}$ with the right-hand side given in a certain integral form. As a corollary, in the one-dimensional case, we obtain a weighted log-Sobolev inequality.