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Jakša Cvitanić

Optimal Fund MenusJakša Cvitanić - Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology

Date:
Friday, Sep. 18, 2026
2:00 PM
Location:
online

Optimal Fund MenusJakša Cvitanić - Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology

We study the optimal design of a menu of funds by a manager who is required to use linear pricing and does not observe the beliefs of investors regarding one of the risky assets.  The optimal menu involves bundling of assets and can be constructed fromthe solution to a calculus of variations problem that optimizes over the indirect utility that each type receives. We provide a complete characterization of the optimal menu and show that the need to maintain incentive compatibility leads the manager to offer funds that are inefficiently tilted towards the asset that is not subject to the information friction.

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