Optimal Portfolio Selection for a Defined Contribution Pension Fund with Return Clauses of Premium with Predetermined Interest Rate under Mean-variance Utility Optimal Portfolio Selection for a Defined Contribution Pension Fund with Return Clauses of Premium with Predetermined Interest Rate under Mean-variance Utility

Abstract

This paper investigates the optimal investment strategies for a defined contribution pension fund with return clauses of premiums with interest under the mean-variance criterion. Using the actuarial symbol, we formalize the problem as a continuous time mean-variance stochastic optimal control. The pension fund manager considers investments in risk and risk-free assets to increase the remaining accumulated funds to meet the retirement needs of the remaining members. Using the variational inequalities methods, we established an optimized problem from the extended Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman Equations and solved the optimized problem to obtain the optimal investment strategies for both risk-free and risky assets and also the efficient frontier of the pension member. Furthermore, we evaluated analytically and numerically the effect of various parameters of the optimal investment strategies on it. We observed that the optimal investment strategy for the risky asset decreases with an increase in the risk-averse level, initial wealth, and the predetermined interest rate.