Risk analysis and management currently have a strong presence in financial institutions, where high performance and energy efficiency are key requirements for acceleration systems, especially when it comes to intraday analysis. In this regard, we approach the estimation of the widely-employed...

We develop a simple and fast methodology for the estimation of future outstanding, discrete dividend payments, based on market prices of American at-the-money options. Our method relies on a linear combination of no-arbitrage bounds of the dividends. The corresponding optimal weight is...

In this article we include discrete dividends in the stock price model and solve a generalized portfolio optimization problem. For this, we develop a new discrete dividend model that allows for the possibility of early announcement and ensures that the drop of the stock price at the ex-dividend...