Two major financial market complexities are transaction costs and uncertain volatility, and we analyze their joint impact on the problem of portfolio optimization. When volatility is constant, the transaction costs optimal investment problem has a long history, especially in the use of...

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...

In this companion paper to “Optimal Investment with Transaction Costs and Stochastic Volatility Part I: Infinite Horizon”, "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2374150" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2374150, we give an accuracy proof for the finite time optimal investment and consumption problem under fast...

The problem of portfolio allocation in the context of stocks evolving in random environments, that is with volatility and returns depending on random factors, has attracted a lot of attention. The problem of maximizing a power utility at a terminal time with only one random factor can be...