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Optimal design of equity-linked products with a probabilistic constraint

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  • Phelim Boyle
  • Weidong Tian

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There is a rich variety of tailored investment products available to the retail investor. These products combine upside participation in bull markets with downside protection in bear markets. Examples include the equity-linked products sold by insurance companies and the structured products marketed by banks. This paper examines a particular contract design for products of this nature. The paper finds the optimal design from the investor's viewpoint. It is assumed that the investor wishes to maximize expected utility of the terminal wealth subject to certain constraints. These constraints include a guaranteed rate of return as well as the opportunity to outperform a benchmark portfolio with a given probability. We derive the explicit form of the optimal design assuming both constraints apply and we illustrate the nature of the solution using some specific examples.

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  • Phelim Boyle & Weidong Tian, 2009. "Optimal design of equity-linked products with a probabilistic constraint," Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 2009(4), pages 253-280.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:sactxx:v:2009:y:2009:i:4:p:253-280
    DOI: 10.1080/03461230802281070
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