Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2015/iii/paper-40/5/a/solution

Use a telescoping replication of a stock-price sum. Hold shares during interval ; at time , sell one share and keep its proceeds in the bond. Start with shares and no cash, costing .
After the time- rebalance, the stock holdings are and the cash holdings are , so wealth is
The sale of one share exactly funds the cash increase, making the strategy self-financing. Equivalently,
At time there are no remaining shares, and the cash equals the claim. All stock positions over trading intervals are predictable.

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