Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 413072, 14 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/413072

Research Article

Optimal Investment and Consumption for an Insurer with High-Watermark Performance Fee

Lin Xu,¹ Hao Wang,¹ and Dingjun Yao²

¹School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241000, China
²School of Finance, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China

Received 18 August 2015; Accepted 5 October 2015

Academic Editor: Xinguang Zhang

Copyright © 2015 Lin Xu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

The optimal investment and consumption problem is investigated for an insurance company, which is subject to the payment of high-watermark fee from profit. The objective of insurance company is to maximize the expected cumulated discount utility up to ruin time. The consumption behavior considered in this paper can be viewed as dividend payment of the insurance company. It turns out that the value function of the proposed problem is the viscosity solution to the associated HJB equation. The regularity of the viscosity is discussed and some asymptotic results are provided. With the help of the smooth properties of viscosity solutions, we complete the verification theorem of the optimal control policies and the potential applications of the main result are discussed.

1. Introduction

Investment and consumption are of great importance in the study of finance and financial engineering. This is due to the fact that investment and consumption not only are the key topic of financial agents but also provide idea and method of deriving equilibrium price of financial derivatives (cf. Shreve and Soner [1]). Applications of stochastic optimal control to management and financial problems were developed from the 1970s, especially after the papers by Merton [2, 3] on portfolio selection. The model and results of Merton were then extended by many authors; for example, see Zariphopoulou [4], Øksendal and Sulem [5], and Fleming and Pang [6]. These problems are also studied in the monograph by Karatzas and Shreve [7]. The decision makers associated with optimal investment and consumption problems that appeared in aforementioned papers stand on the perspective of financial firms or investment bank, and the business income of decision makers comes from proper construction of portfolio positions. Usually, it assumes that the financial market is frictionless: no transaction cost and no tax payment, money that can be infinitely divided, no restrictions on short or long positions, and so forth. More recently, there is also a large, more recent literature related to the investment in markets with frictions. A transaction cost is a typical example. For example, Davis and Norman [8] studied portfolio selection problem with transaction cost, which uses the variance of the portfolio positrons as the risk measure; Janeček and Sîrbu [9] studied the future trading problem with transaction cost. Shreve and Soner [1] investigated optimal consumption and investment with transaction cost; the optimization goal therein is to maximize expected cumulated discounted utility in an infinite time horizon. Whalley and Wilmott [10] studied optimal hedging model with transaction costs. Previously mentioned papers are just a few examples of the growing literature on the topic; for more progress on this topic, readers are also referred to the works of Cvitanić and Karatzas [11], Liu and Loewenstein [12], Korn [13], and Obizhaeva and Wang [14].

Among all kinds of transaction cost, the high gain tax payment or high-watermark fee has attracted many attentions recently. The high-watermark fee is taken as the following rule: whenever the maximum up to today, the so-called high-watermark, exceeds the previously attained historic maximum, the fixed proportion of the profit (relative to the previous maximum) is charged by the fund manager. In the early 1980s, Stiglitz [15] discussed the possibility and necessity of charging high gain tax from investment income. The past two decades have witnessed an increasing attention to the research of optimal control problem with high-watermark fee. For example, Dammon et al. [16] investigated optimal investment and consumption problem with capital gain taxes, Goetzmann et al. [17] studied the hedge fund management when charging high gain tax, and Guasoni and Wang [18] studied high-watermark and separation of private problems. As it was shown previously, investment and consumption problem is an important topic for insurer and also a key topic of insurance mathematics or financial mathematics. Thus, it is natural to consider optimal investment and consumption problem for an insurer when high-watermark fees are charged. Up to now, seldom insurance company considers consumption problems. Thus, to discuss optimal consumption for an insurer seems weird. However, an analogue problem in insurance company is the dividend payment or pension payment problem. For example, Højgaard and Taksar [19] studied reinsurance and dividend with transaction costs, Cairns [20] studied optimal pension fund schedule problem, Zhu [21] took both investment and dividend into account in searching for optimal policies, and He and Liang [22] investigated pension schedule and asset allocation problem. For other works on investment and consumption problem related to insurance affair or partially related to insurance affairs, see Bielecki and Pliska [23], Dai and Yi [24], and Young [25].

In the paper of Janeček and Sîrbu [9], the optimal investment and consumption problems for a fund manager on infinite time horizon are considered when the fund manager is subject to the high-watermark fee from investment. However, the model considered there is not suitable for an insurance company because the latter one has premium income and claims with addition to the investment profit (or underlying risk). This paper contributes to bridging this gap. The surplus process of the insurer is specified by a classical risk model and the insurer has the chance to invest into risky asset and risk-free bond market. Whenever the profit of the insurer attains a new maximum, the high-watermark fee is taken as a kind of gain tax. The goal of the insurer is to choose optimal investment and consumption policies before ruin occurs. We will point out that although it seems weird to allow the insurance company to make consumption policies, dividend payment is a very common decision policy for the managers of insurance company. Thus, the consumption framework considered in this paper can be regarded as a kind of dividend payment of insurer. The progress achieved in this paper can be summarized as follows. The optimization problem considered in this paper is relevant to a jump diffusion process. Thus, the associated HJB equation contains an integration part, which brings us some difficulties in proving the smooth properties of the solution to HJB equation. Similarly, it brings us difficulties in proving that the value function is the viscosity solution to HJB equation with integration part. Following the idea presented in Janeček and Sîrbu [9], we prove that the value function is smooth on its domain. We obtain the value function of an insurer without high-watermark fee, which is not considered in other literature. We obtain a verification theorem, which means that the viscosity solution to HJB equation is indeed the value function. Due to the natural connections between the viscosity solution to HJB equation and the numerical algorithm to the stochastic control problem, the main result obtained in this paper is useful in the design of the numerical approximating method of the related HJB equation.

The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, the model and problem are presented and efforts are made to transform the model such that dynamic programming principle and HJB equation method are applicable. In Section 3, the definition of viscosity solution to a kind of second-order partial integrodifferential equation is given, and the value function is proved to be the viscosity solution of the associated HJB equation. In Section 4, by employing the same method of Janeček and Sîrbu [9], the viscosity solution is proved to be smooth on certain domain. The properties of viscosity on some singular point are also discussed. Section 5 presents a verification theorem, which asserts that the solution to HJB equation is indeed the value function and the corresponding feedback control replicates the optimal realization of the insurer. Section 6 concludes the main contributions of this paper and potential applications of our results.

2. Model and Problem

2.1. Classical Risk Model and Its Diffusion Approximation

In this subsection, we briefly introduce the classical risk model of an insurance company and its diffusion approximation. The content presented here will be helpful for our later investigation. Classical risk model for an insurer is (cf. Grandell [26])

where is the constant premium income rate and denotes the number of claims that arrived up to time , which is assumed to be a homogeneous Poisson process with intensity . The individual claims are assumed to be a sequence of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) positive random variables (r.v.s.) with common distribution function and finite expectation and satisfy . In addition, it assumes that and are mutually independent. For notation convenience, we denote by the aggregate claim process; that is, . We denote that and . Main topic associated with classical risk model is the ruin probability; in mathematics, it is , where is known as “ruin time” in risk theory. There are many methods to study the ruin time and ruin probability, such as renewal method prompted by Feller and martingale approach introduced by Gerber (cf. Grandell [26]). Another idea is to approximate the classical risk model by some stochastic process with good statistical properties, such as Gaussian process. This is so-called diffusion approximation of classical risk model; see Chapter of Grandell [26].

2.2. A General Model of Profits from Dynamic Investment in a Hedge Fund

Now, suppose that the insurance company invests in a risky fund with a share or unit price at time . If the insurance company chooses to hold capital in the fund at time and no fees of any kind are imposed, then the accumulated profit at time , denoted by , evolves as

Remark 1. The assumption seems unreasonable from practice; however, we want to compare our model with the model studied in Janeček and Sîrbu [9], so we made such an assumption. In later discussion, the initial surplus of the insurer is assumed to be .

Denote by the maximum profit process; that is,

Assume now that the manager tracks the high-watermark fee once the insurance company achieves new maximum of profit; the rule is as follows: anytime the high-watermark increases, percentage of this increase is paid to the fund manager. More precisely, the insurance company pays to the manager in the interval . Under such a high-watermark fee taking rule, the evolution equation for the profit is revised as

Suppose that the insurance company has an initial maximum profit (); the profits of the insurance company will be taxed when reaches value and will not be taxed before reaches at least value . Then, for any given , the dynamic of is given by

A similar representation appears in the appendix of Guasoni and Wang [18], where an optimization problem related to maximizing utility of the fund manager is studied, which is opposed to the utility of the investor in our case. However, their state equation is similar to (5), so we resort to the same pathwise representation.

Proposition 2. Assume that the share/unit prices process is a continuous and strictly positive semimartingale, and the predictable processes are such that the accumulated profit process corresponding to the trading strategy , in case no profit fees are imposed, namely,

is well defined. Then (5) has a unique solution, which can be represented pathwise by

Proof. Note that , ; (5) can be rewritten as

Taking the positive part and the supremum on both sides, it follows that

Replacing (10) into (5), we finish the proof of uniqueness.
By checking that the process in (7) is a solution of (5), more precisely,

This completes the proof.

2.3. Optimal Investment and Consumption in a Special Model

Assume that the insurance company starts with initial capital and only additional investment opportunity is the money market paying zero interest rate. The insurance company is given the intimal high-watermark for its profits. We assume that the insurance company consumes at a rate per unit of time. Consumption can be made either from the money market account or from accumulated profit. Denote by

the accumulated consumption process and by the wealth process of an insurer associated with decision policy . Since the money market pays zero interest rate, the wealth is formulated as

where is the first time that the wealth goes below zero. In actuarial theory, is referred to as the “ruin time.” In later discussion, for notation ease, we drop the symbol in .

If consumption is taken into account, the high-watermark of the insurance company’s profit can be represented as

where . In this situation, wealth evolves as

So far, this is a general model of investment/consumption in a hedge fund, which is also a good model of taxation. In what follows, we focus on a simple but important case, where the fund share/unit price evolves as a geometric Brownian motion; that is,

where is a standard Brownian motion defined on the filtered probability space . With this notation, (15) becomes

In order to use dynamic programming, we want to represent the control problem using a state process of minimal dimension. What is more, since we want to apply the HJB equation method, it is necessary to embed our state process into a Markovian system. As usual, the wealth has to be a part of the state. But using as state is not a possibility, since does not contain the information on past consumption, just that on past profits. Copying the method of Janeček and Sîrbu [9], we observed that the fee is being paid as soon as the current profit (current wealth plus accumulated consumption plus aggregate claim minus income minus initial wealth) hits the high-watermark . In other words, fees are paid whenever

which is the same as for

We now choose as state process the two-dimensional process which satisfies and is reflected whenever . The controlled state process follows the evolution

Equation (20) is implicit, as is (5). The pathwise representation in Proposition 2 can be easily translated into a pathwise solution (20). More precisely, we have Proposition 3, and the proof of Proposition 3 is similar to Proposition 2; we omit it here.

Proposition 3. Assume that the predictable process satisfies

Denote

Suppose that the accumulated profit process corresponding to the trading strategy is well defined. Then

The high-watermark is computed as

Fix an initial capital and an initial high-watermark of profits . Recall that . An investment/consumption strategy is called admissible with respect to the initial date if it satisfies integrability conditions (21); the consumption stream is positive . We denote by the set of all admissible strategies at .

We consider a concave utility function . So we can define the expected utility from consumption . The object of this paper is to research the optimal investment/consumption amounts related to following optimization problem (for each fixed ):

One should note that once the initial surplus is negative, that is, , it immediately followed by

Function defined above is called the value function. We further assume that the utility function has the particular form

for some , where is called the relative risk aversion coefficient.

Using the controls the insurance company controls the process in (21) which is restricted to the domain and is reflected on the diagonal in the direction given by the vector

So, state (20) can be rewritten as

where

Denote the continuous part of process by ; that is,

The main goal of the present paper is to analyze the impact of fees on the investment/consumption strategies and the main method in this paper relies on HJB equation. One should note that, with the introduction of process , we embed our model into a Markov system, which enables further discussion.

3. Dynamic Programming and HJB Equation

Now, in order to obtain the HJB equation as follows, we will use the dynamic programming principle; see Proposition 4. The proof of Proposition 4 is similar to the one in Azcue and Muler [27] and we omit the proof here.

Proposition 4. Suppose that is an optimal control. Then one has

If is smooth enough, by Itô’s Lemma, we have

where is the Poisson random measure on defined by

Denote by (associated with ) the second-order partial differential operator with the form of

where are the first, the second, and the first partial derivatives with respect to and , respectively. Then, by compensating (33) with

(33) can be rewritten as

Since

is a martingale (see [28, page 63]), it follows that

With boundary condition (26), dividing proceeding equation by and sending to , we can formally write the HJB function:

Boundary condition (41) comes from the fact that the wealth process will reflect whenever with direction and the gradient of is perpendicular to at .

If we can find a smooth solution for the HJB, then the optimal consumption will actually be given in feedback form by

where is the inverse of marginal utility. In addition, we expect the optimal amount invested in the fund to be given by

Usually, it is difficult to justify the smoothness of value function or the existence of classical solution to the HJB equation that appeared in a control problem. The theory of viscosity principally provides us with a way to analyze our problem (cf. Crandall et al. [29]). To proceed our discussion, we need the following alternative expressions of dynamic programming principle; the readers are referred to Pham [30]. In the sequel, we denote by the set of stopping times valued in ; then one has the following.

Proposition 5. (1) For all and ,

(2) For all , there exists such that, for all ,

4. Value Function, Viscosity Solution, and Its Regularity

4.1. Value Function and Viscosity Solution

In order to introduce the concept of viscosity solutions, we first introduce some additional notations. Given a locally bounded function (i.e., for all , there exists a compact neighborhood of such that is bounded on ); we define its upper-semicontinuous envelope and lower-semicontinuous envelope on by

Recall that (resp., ) is the smallest (resp., largest) upper-semicontinuous function (u.s.c.) above (resp., lower-semicontinuous function (l.s.c.) below) on . Note that a locally bounded function on is lower-semicontinuous (resp., upper-semicontinuous) if and only if on , and it is continuous if (and only if) on .

Remark 6. Here, the first and second partial derivatives with respect to at mean the right partial derivatives.

Definition 7 (viscosity subsolution and supersolution). An u.s.c. function is a viscosity subsolution of (40) iff for any test function ; if is a global maximum point of , then

A l.s.c. function is a viscosity supersolution of (40) iff for any test function ; if is a global minimum point of , then

Finally, is a viscosity solution of (40) if it is simultaneously a viscosity subsolution and supersolution.

In addition to Definition 7, there are three equivalent definitions on second-ordered Integro-differential partial differential equations; the readers who are interested in the proof of the equivalence of these definitions are referred to Benth et al. [31] or Barles and Imbert [32].

Theorem 8. is a viscosity solution of (40), where was defined in (25).

Proof. Let us prove firstly that is a viscosity supersolution. Let and let be a test function such that

We further extend the domain of to with the convention that for all . One will see later that such extension does not prevent us from discussing our problem. By definition of , there exists a sequence in , such that

when goes to infinity. By the continuity of and by (49) we also have that

when goes to infinity.
Let ; we denote by the associated controlled process. Let and be the stopping times given by and in which is a fixed constant, and . Let be a strictly positive sequence such that

when goes to infinity. We apply the first part of the dynamic programming principle (44) for to and get

Equation (49) implies that . Thus

Applying Itô’s formula to between and , we obtain

after noting that the stochastic integral term cancels out by taking expectations since the integrand is bounded. Since the random variable inside the expectation in (55) is bounded by a constant independent of , we then obtain

when goes to infinity by the dominated convergence theorem. We conclude from the arbitrariness of . Thus we get (48).
It remains to prove that is a viscosity subsolution. Let and let be a test function such that

We will show the result by contradiction. Assume on the contrary that

There exist and such that

for all . By the definition of , there exists a sequence taking values in such that

when goes to infinity. By continuity of and using (57), we also find that

when goes to infinity. Let be a strictly positive sequence such that

Then, according to the second part of dynamic programming principle (45) and using (57), there is a sequence such that

in which we take , , ,, and . Since converges to , we can always assume that . For , by applaying Itô’s formula to , we get

with

after noting that the stochastic integral term cancels out by taking expectations since the integrand is bounded.
Moreover, noting that for

we find using (59) and (64) that

since (see Pham [30, Page 38])

By Chebyshev’s inequality, we deduce that

when goes to zero, that is, when goes to infinity. Moreover, since

we deduce that

So we obtain

This implies that converges to when goes to zero. We thus get the desired contradiction by letting go to infinity in (67).
So (47) holds and we complete the proof.

4.2. Dimension Reduction and Regularity of Viscosity Solution

A key insight noted by Magill and Constantinides [33] and exploited in Davis and Norman [8] is that because of the homotheticity of power utility function (Proposition ) the dimension of our control problem is ready to be reduced from two to one. In Janeček and Sîrbu [9], where the decision maker is assumed to be a hedge fund manager, such reduction is successful and with such reduction, the authors proved the regularity of the viscosity solution to the HJB equation associated with their control problem. In our problem we guess that the value function, also the viscosity solution to the HJB equation, resembles similar property. The following intuitive interpretation will help us to understand this point. In Section 2.1, it has been shown that the ruin probability of classical risk model can be approximated to a drifted Brownian motion with proper drift and diffusion coefficients. What is more, one can even try to approximate the distribution of the functional of the maximum process of classical risk model by diffusion process. So, if we replace the classical risk model by a proper drifted Brownian motion, then after some easy calculations, one can find that the corresponding HJB equation shares the same formulation with the one presented in Janeček and Sîrbu [9]. In this situation, it is natural to guess that the value function can be reduced from two to one. The main difference of the HJB equation of this paper is that there is an integral term in the HJB equation, however, after noting that the control process is stopped after stopping time , so we still hope that there is a possibility to reduce the viscosity solution from two to one. More precisely, we expect that

In addition, instead of looking for the optimal amounts and in (43) and (42) we look for the proportions

Since

it is followed that (40) and (41) can be reformulated as

where, for notation simplicity, we adopt for . We also expect that

with given by (96) below; see (98).

The optimal investment proportion in (75) could therefore be expressed (if we can find a smooth solution for reduced HJB (77)) as

and the optimal consumption proportion in (74) would be given by

The following theorem asserts the regularity of the viscosity solution to (77) with boundary condition (78).

Theorem 9. The function is on and satisfies

Moreover, it is a solution of the equation

where

Proof. The proof is very similar to the one for Theorem of Janeček and Sîrbu [9] more or less; we do not copy the steps here. One just needs to note that the HJB equation in this paper differs from the one in Janeček and Sîrbu [9] lies in ; however, this term is not involved in the discussion of the regularity of viscosity.

Remark 10. Although the jump term of insurer does not affect the smoothness of the value function of our control problem, due to the existence of such jump term, the value function and consequently the optimal policies will be highly influenced. This will be illustrated in the next section by partial analysis on the properties to the viscosity solution.

Theorem 9 claims the regularity of value function when . When , the value function is specified by the following theorem.

Theorem 11. satisfies

Proof. If initial surplus of insurer , then to invest any amount on risky market can be optimal since the diffusion property of the risky market will cause ruin to happen immediately (cf. Dufresne and Gerber [34]). So optimal investment for insurer is to invest 0 amount on risky market in a very small interval, and of course, the optimal consumption rate , which is to be determined, should not exceed the premium income rate, say . Based on this analysis, the HJB function for value function at is reduced to

4.3. Asymptotic Properties of Value Function

In this section, we will have some asymptotic properties of value function.

Lemma 12. is bounded on .

Proof. Revisit the definition of , suppose that at time the wealth process of insurer is , and then obviously , or else the ruin will take place, which cannot be the optimal policy for insurer. Thus, one can see that

where the wealth process , is the one under policy and . So, the policy that maximizes the ruin time will maximize . Yang and Zhang [35] prove that a constant investment policy maximizes this amount. If the insurer adopts the constant investment policy, then the wealth process of insurer is

where is the constant investment policy. Then, if , it is easy to see that is bounded. If , Protter [36] shows that

where and are constants depending on coefficients involved in the wealth process. Thus, by choosing a large enough , it follows that

This indicates that is bounded.

Theorem 13. For and that are defined by (74) and (75), one has

and is determined by

where .

Proof. Note that and , by Theorem 9 one can prove that

Here we assume that the above limits exist; in fact, by repeating a similar discussion to the proof for Proposition of Janeček and Sîrbu [9], such assumptions are guaranteed. By (80) and (81) and (94), we have (92) immediately. Let in (83), and by (94) we have (93).

Remark 14. (1) (the case when paying no fee and ) This is the classical problem in Merton [2, 3] and can be solved in closed form. More precisely, for , the optimal investment and consumption proportions are constant, which are given by

The Merton value function (and solution of the HJB) equals

It follows that for

Since in (98) is constant, (95) and (96) are compatible with the feedback formulas (80) and (81).
As can be easily seen from above, for the case , in order to obtain a finite value function, an additional constraint needs to be imposed on the parameters. This is equivalent to in (96) being strictly positive, which translates to the standing assumption

(2) When , our model reduces to the case that an insurer would like to maximize his expected cumulative discount utility form consumption. To the best of our knowledge, this problem has not been addressed before. One may find that when , it means that the insurer does not need to pay any high-watermark fee for the gain profit, which is equal to the case that the initial high-watermark of the insurer is infinity in the model studied in this paper. Denote by the value function of the insurer who does not need to be subject to high-watermark fee; then

where is specified by (93). This is also the value function for the insurer without high-watermark fee.
Comparing and , it is obvious that two functions share the same power formulation and differ on the constant term. These results indicate that there is no significant difference between the investment and consumption behavior between an insurance company and a hedge fund manager. This is not the first time that we observe such phenomenon; in fact, when we consider the optimal investment for maximizing the survival probability of an insurer (cf. Yang and Zhang [35]) or the one of a fund manager (cf. Browne [37]), the value function shares the same exponential form, which just differs on the constant term.

5. The Verification Theorem

Theorem 15 (the verification theorem). Let be a function in and satisfy a quadratic growth condition; that is, there exists a constant such that

(1) Suppose that

Then on .
(2) Suppose further that, for all , there exists a measurable function , , value in such that

and SDE (20) admits a unique solution, denoted by , given an initial condition , which satisfies

and the process that stops at lies in .
Then

and is an optimal Markovian control.

Proof. (1) Since , we have for all , , , similar to (37); by Itô formula and taking the expectation, we have

Since satisfies (102), we have

and so

We have

The right hand side of (111) is integrable by the integrability condition on . According to (110), by sending to , since satisfies a quadratic grown condition, we obtain by the dominated convergence theorem and by (104)

Since is arbitrary, we conclude that , for all .
(2) We apply Itô’s formula to between and (after an eventual localization for removing the stochastic integral term in the expectation):

Now, by definition of , we have

and so

By sending to and from (106), we obtain

and finally we obtain that with as an optimal Markovian control. So we complete the proof.

6. Conclusions

In this paper, we study the optimal investment and consumption problem of an insurer, where the consumption of insurer can be regarded as a kind of dividend payment. Thus, the problem considered in this paper is of practical relevance and reasonable. By dynamic programming method, the associated HJB equation is derived and the value function is proved to be the viscosity solutions. This result enables us to apply the numerical scheme for PDE, especially for HJB equation in viscosity sense (cf. Soner [38]) to find the optimal investment and consumption policies and the value function.

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

Acknowledgments

The authors are very grateful to editors and anonymous advices and help, which improved this paper greatly. This paper was supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (11201006 and 11301303), Humanities and Social Sciences Project of the Ministry of Education of China (12YJC910012, 14YJA630088, and 15YJC910008), and Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China (15KJB110009).

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