The duality of option investment strategies for hedge funds

This paper explores the structure of optimal investment strategies using stochastic programming and duality theory in investment portfolios containing options for a hedge fund manager who attempts to beat a benchmark. Explicit optimal conditions for option investments are obtained for several models.

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