We analyze the American option valuation problem with the forward performance criterion introduced by Musiela and Zariphopoulou (2008). In this framework, utility evolves forward in time without reference to a specific future time horizon. Moreover, risk preferences change with stochastic market...

American options are actively traded worldwide on exchanges, thus making their accurate and efficient pricing an important problem. As most financial markets exhibit randomly varying volatility, in this paper we introduce an approximation of American option price under stochastic volatility...

This supplemental appendix accompanies "Optimal Investment with Transaction Costs and Stochastic Volatility Part II: Finite Horizon" by the same authors, available at:"http://ssrn.com/abstract=2659918" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2659918. In this appendix we prove the verification theorem that the...