Striving for efficient asset allocation investors usually have limited risk bearingability. This results in an upper limit for their portfolio volatility that must not be exceeded.Ensuring compliance with this risk limit at any point in time is essentially complicated bytwo factors: First,...

Welfare gains to long-horizon investors may derive from time diversification that exploits non-zerointertemporal return correlations associated with predictable returns. Real estate may thus become moredesirable if its returns are negatively serially correlated. While it could be important for...

This book presents a systematic account of the development of optimal control problems defined on an unbounded time interval - beginning primarily with the work of the early seventies to the present. The first five to six chapters provide a good introduction to infinite horizon control theory...