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Wealth Effect on Portfolio Allocation in Incomplete Markets

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  • Chenxu Li
  • Olivier Scaillet
  • Yiwen Shen

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We develop a novel five-component decomposition of optimal dynamic portfolio choice, which reveals the simultaneous impacts from market incompleteness and wealth-dependent utilities. Under the HARA utility and a nonrandom interest rate, we can explicitly solve for the optimal policy as a combination of a bond holding scheme and the corresponding simpler CRRA strategy. Under a stochastic volatility model estimated on US equity data, we use closed-form solution to demonstrate the sophisticated impacts from the wealth-dependent utilities, including cycle-dependence and hysteresis effect in optimal portfolio allocation, as well as a risk-return trade-off in investment performance.

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  • Chenxu Li & Olivier Scaillet & Yiwen Shen, 2020. "Wealth Effect on Portfolio Allocation in Incomplete Markets," Papers 2004.10096, arXiv.org, revised Aug 2021.
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