Economic Properties of the Risk Sensitive Criterion for Portfolio Management

The idea of using stochastic control methods for theoretical studies of portfolio management has long been standard, with maximum expected utility criteria commonly being used. But in recent years a new kind of criterion, the risk sensitive criterion, has emerged from the control theory literature and been applied to portfolio management. This paper studies various economic properties of this criterion for portfolio management, thereby providing justification for its theoretical and practical use. In particular, it is shown that the risk sensitive criterion amounts to maximizing a portfolio's risk adjusted growth rate. In other words, it is essentially the same as what is commonly done in practice: find the best trade‐off between a portfolio's average return and its average volatility.

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