Partial Information in a Mean‐Variance Portfolio Selection Game

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Main Authors: Yu‐Jui Huang, Li‐Hsien Sun
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contents Partial Information in a Mean‐Variance Portfolio Selection Game Yu‐Jui Huang Li‐Hsien Sun Mathematical Finance ABSTRACT This paper considers finitely many investors who perform mean‐variance portfolio selection under relative performance criteria. That is, each investor is concerned about not only her terminal wealth, but how it compares to the average terminal wealth of all investors. At the inter‐personal level, each investor selects a trading strategy in response to others' strategies. This selected strategy additionally needs to yield an equilibrium intra‐personally , so as to resolve time inconsistency among the investor's current and future selves (triggered by the mean‐variance objective). A Nash equilibrium we look for is thus a tuple of trading strategies under which every investor achieves her intra‐personal equilibrium simultaneously. We derive such a Nash equilibrium explicitly in the idealized case of full information (i.e., the dynamics of the underlying stock is perfectly known) and semi‐explicitly in the realistic case of partial information (i.e., the stock evolution is observed, but the expected return of the stock is not precisely known). The formula under partial information consists of the myopic trading and intertemporal hedging terms, both of which depend on an additional state process that serves to filter the true expected return and whose influence on trading is captured by a degenerate Cauchy problem. Our results identify that relative performance criteria can induce downward self‐reinforcement of investors' wealth—if every investor suffers a wealth decline simultaneously, then everyone's wealth tends to decline further. This phenomenon, as numerical examples show, is negligible under full information but pronounced under partial information. 10.1111/mafi.70013 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#am
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spellingShingle Partial Information in a Mean‐Variance Portfolio Selection Game
Yu‐Jui Huang
Li‐Hsien Sun
Mathematical Finance
Partial Information in a Mean‐Variance Portfolio Selection Game Yu‐Jui Huang Li‐Hsien Sun Mathematical Finance ABSTRACT This paper considers finitely many investors who perform mean‐variance portfolio selection under relative performance criteria. That is, each investor is concerned about not only her terminal wealth, but how it compares to the average terminal wealth of all investors. At the inter‐personal level, each investor selects a trading strategy in response to others' strategies. This selected strategy additionally needs to yield an equilibrium intra‐personally , so as to resolve time inconsistency among the investor's current and future selves (triggered by the mean‐variance objective). A Nash equilibrium we look for is thus a tuple of trading strategies under which every investor achieves her intra‐personal equilibrium simultaneously. We derive such a Nash equilibrium explicitly in the idealized case of full information (i.e., the dynamics of the underlying stock is perfectly known) and semi‐explicitly in the realistic case of partial information (i.e., the stock evolution is observed, but the expected return of the stock is not precisely known). The formula under partial information consists of the myopic trading and intertemporal hedging terms, both of which depend on an additional state process that serves to filter the true expected return and whose influence on trading is captured by a degenerate Cauchy problem. Our results identify that relative performance criteria can induce downward self‐reinforcement of investors' wealth—if every investor suffers a wealth decline simultaneously, then everyone's wealth tends to decline further. This phenomenon, as numerical examples show, is negligible under full information but pronounced under partial information. 10.1111/mafi.70013 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#am
title Partial Information in a Mean‐Variance Portfolio Selection Game
topic Mathematical Finance
url https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mafi.70013