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Optimal Investment to Reach a Financial Goal: A Stochastic Control Framework

We develop a framework for an investor who trades until she either reaches a financial goal or an exogenous deadline arrives. Analogous to utility functions over wealth, we measure satisfaction with the timing of reaching a goal by a discount function. For a continuous-time market where a stochastic

Lab Rats Math 9 Rigor 3 ·  October 7, 2026

Predictable Relative Forward Performance Processes: Multi-Agent and Mean Field Games for Portfolio Management

We introduce predictable relative forward performance processes (PRFPP) as a new framework for studying portfolio management within a competitive and incomplete market environment. Each agent trades a distinct stock following a binomial distribution with probabilities for a positive return depending

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 2.5 ·  November 8, 2023

PreFER: Interactive Robo-Advisor with Scoring Mechanism

We propose an interactive robo-advising framework that learns personalized risk preferences from scores provided by clients. The resulting preference-learning problem is closely related to inverse reinforcement learning (IRL), as the robo-advisor infers the client’s latent reward specification from

Lab Rats Math 7 Rigor 3 ·  October 2, 2026

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