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Goal-based portfolio selection with fixed transaction costs

Published: October 24, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2510.21650v1

By: Erhan Bayraktar, Bingyan Han, Jingjie Zhang

Potential Business Impact:

Helps people invest money to reach goals.

Business Areas:
Impact Investing Financial Services, Lending and Investments

We study a goal-based portfolio selection problem in which an investor aims to meet multiple financial goals, each with a specific deadline and target amount. Trading the stock incurs a strictly positive transaction cost. Using the stochastic Perron's method, we show that the value function is the unique viscosity solution to a system of quasi-variational inequalities. The existence of an optimal trading strategy and goal funding scheme is established. Numerical results reveal complex optimal trading regions and show that the optimal investment strategy differs substantially from the V-shaped strategy observed in the frictionless case.

Country of Origin
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ China, United States

Page Count
56 pages

Category
Mathematics:
Optimization and Control