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A Pure Dual Approach for Hedging Bermudan Options

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  • Aurélien Alfonsi
  • Ahmed Kebaier
  • Jérôme Lelong

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This paper develops a new dual approach to compute the hedging portfolio of a Bermudan option and its initial value. It gives a “purely dual” algorithm following the spirit of Rogers in the sense that it only relies on the dual pricing formula. The key is to rewrite the dual formula as an excess reward representation and to combine it with a strict convexification technique. The hedging strategy is then obtained by using a Monte‐Carlo method, solving backward a sequence of least square problems. We show convergence results for our algorithm and test it on many different Bermudan options. Beyond giving directly the hedging portfolio, the strength of the algorithm is to assess both the relevance of including financial instruments in the hedging portfolio and the effect of the rebalancing frequency.

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  • Aurélien Alfonsi & Ahmed Kebaier & Jérôme Lelong, 2025. "A Pure Dual Approach for Hedging Bermudan Options," Mathematical Finance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(4), pages 745-759, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:mathfi:v:35:y:2025:i:4:p:745-759
    DOI: 10.1111/mafi.12460
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