Abstract

This paper is devoted to study the proportional reinsurance/new business and investment problem under the mean-variance criterion in a continuous-time setting. The strategies are constrained in the non-negative cone and all coefficients in the model except the interest rate are stochastic processes adapted the filtration generated by a Markov chain. With the help of a backward stochastic differential equation driven by the Markov chain, we obtain the optimal strategy and optimal cost explicitly under this non-Markovian regime-switching model. The cases with one risky asset and Markov regime-switching model are considered as special cases.

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