Optimally Investing to Reach a Bequest Goal
Optimally Investing to Reach a Bequest Goal
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10.2139/ssrn.2573421
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2015-03
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Erhan Bayraktar;V. Young
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作者:
Erhan Bayraktar;V. Young
We determine the optimal strategy for investing in a Black-Scholes market in order to maximize the probability that wealth at death meets a bequest goal $b$, a type of goal-seeking problem, as pioneered by Dubins and Savage (1965, 1976). The individual consumes at a constant rate $c$, so the level of wealth required for risklessly meeting consumption equals $c/r$, in which $r$ is the rate of return of the riskless asset. Our problem is related to, but different from, the goal-reaching problems of Browne (1997). First, Browne (1997, Section 3.1) maximizes the probability that wealth reaches $b