This article discusses a class of risk-sensitive portfolio optimisation problem in the finite horizon. Our market consists of stocks and a saving account with the underlying spot interest rate being governed by an stochastic differential equation (SDE). We prove the existence of optimal investment strategies and also obtain an explicit form for optimal strategies.
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