## The Annals of Applied Probability

### Robust maximization of asymptotic growth

#### Abstract

This paper addresses the question of how to invest in a robust growth-optimal way in a market where the instantaneous expected return of the underlying process is unknown. The optimal investment strategy is identified using a generalized version of the principal eigenfunction for an elliptic second-order differential operator, which depends on the covariance structure of the underlying process used for investing. The robust growth-optimal strategy can also be seen as a limit, as the terminal date goes to infinity, of optimal arbitrages in the terminology of Fernholz and Karatzas [Ann. Appl. Probab. 20 (2010) 1179–1204].

#### Article information

Source
Ann. Appl. Probab., Volume 22, Number 4 (2012), 1576-1610.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 10 August 2012

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoap/1344614204

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/11-AAP802

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2985170

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1262.60040

#### Citation

Kardaras, Constantinos; Robertson, Scott. Robust maximization of asymptotic growth. Ann. Appl. Probab. 22 (2012), no. 4, 1576--1610. doi:10.1214/11-AAP802. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoap/1344614204

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