Robust optimal investment and reinsurance of an insurer under jump-diffusion models

Abstract

This paper studies a robust optimal investment and reinsurance problem under model uncertainty. The insurer’s risk process is modeled by a general jump process generated by a marked point process. By transferring a proportion of insurance risk to a reinsurance company and investing the surplus into the financial market with a bond and a share index, the insurance company aims to maximize the minimal expected terminal wealth with a penalty. By using the dynamic programming, we formulate the robust optimal investment and reinsurance problem into a two-person, zero-sum, stochastic differential game between the investor and the market. Closed-form solutions for the case of the quadratic penalty function are derived in our paper.