mathematics Article Optimal Portfolios for Different Anticipating Integrals under Insider Information Carlos Escudero 1,* and Sandra Ranilla-Cortina 2,* 1 Departamento de Matemáticas Fundamentales, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, 28040 Madrid, Spain 2 Departamento de Análisis Matemático y Matemática Aplicada, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain * Correspondence:
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[email protected] (S.R.-C.) Abstract: We consider the non-adapted version of a simple problem of portfolio optimization in a financial market that results from the presence of insider information. We analyze it via anticipating stochastic calculus and compare the results obtained by means of the Russo-Vallois forward, the Ayed-Kuo, and the Hitsuda-Skorokhod integrals. We compute the optimal portfolio for each of these cases with the aim of establishing a comparison between these integrals in order to clarify their potential use in this type of problem. Our results give a partial indication that, while the forward integral yields a portfolio that is financially meaningful, the Ayed-Kuo and the Hitsuda-Skorokhod integrals do not provide an appropriate investment strategy for this problem. Keywords: insider trading; Hitsuda-Skorokhod integral; Russo-Vallois forward integral; Ayed-Kuo integral; anticipating stochastic calculus; optimal portfolios MSC: 60H05; 60H07; 60H10; 60H30; 91G80 Citation: Escudero, C.; 1. Introduction Ranilla-Cortina, S. Optimal Portfolios Many mathematical models in the applied sciences are expressed in terms of stochastic for Different Anticipating Integrals differential equations such as: Under Insider Information. dx Mathematics 2021, 9, 75. = a(x, t) + b(x, t) x(t), (1) http://doi.org/10.3390/math9010075 dt (t) Received: 4 December 2020 where x is a “white noise”.