部分信息下带有保费返还条款的DC养老金时间一致性投资策略

本文研究了部分信息下带有保费返还条款的DC养老金的时间一致性投资策略.假设养老金管理者只拥有股票的部分信息,即只能观测到股票的价格,而不能观测到股票的收益率.养老金带有保费返还条款,在基金累积期死亡的参与者可以获得前期缴纳的所有保费.此外,本文还考虑了通胀风险以及随机工资.首先,利用卡尔曼滤波理论,将部分信息情形下的最优投资组合问题转化为一个完全信息情形下的问题.然后,通过求解一个扩展的HJB方程,得到时间一致性投资策略和最优值函数,并给出了均值–方差有效前沿的参数表达式.最后,用蒙特卡洛方法进行数值模拟,分析了部分信息和保费返还条款对股票投资比例和有效前沿的影响,并给出了相应的经济学解释.     

奈特不确定下考虑红利和机制转换的最优消费投资

分析了在奈特不确定性环境下,股票的预期回报率服从Markov链的跨期消费和资产选择问题.首先,对由风险资产预期回报构成的不可观测状态下的隐Marbv状态转换模型做出了刻画,使人们对感性的“不可观测状态”的实际金融市场到其精确的数学模型表达有一个清晰的认识.其次,在连续时间风险模型下,假设具有递归多先验效用的投资者拥有一个不可观测的投资机会的先验集,借助Malliavin导数和随机积分方程求解投资者最优消费和投资策略的显式表达式.通过数值模拟分析时,发现不完备信息下的连续Bayes修正产生了能够削减跨期对冲需求的含糊对冲需求,含糊厌恶增大了最优投资组合策略中对冲需求的重要性.讨论了当市场上出现红利因素,上述最优投资组合结论将会发生何种变化,并对红利因素进行具体的量化,定量地研究不同大小的红利对最优投资组合的影响.最后,利用Monte Carlo Malliavin导数模拟计算法分别说明了考虑含糊情形下最优股票需求和跨期对冲需求的变化趋势,且考虑在股票是否考虑支付红利的情况下对投资的影响.     

基于隐Markov模型的最优资产组合选择

在具有可观测和不可观测状态的金融市场中,利用隐马尔可夫链描述不可观测状态的动态过程,研究了不完全信息市场中的多阶段最优投资组合选择问题.通过构造充分统计量,不完全信息下的投资组合优化问题转化为完全信息下的投资组合优化问题,利用动态规划方法求得了最优投资组合策略和最优值函数的解析解.作为特例,还给出了市场状态完全可观测时的最优投资组合策略和最优值函数.     

不完全信息环境下具有随机工资和保费返还条款的DC养老金均衡策略

在不完全信息环境下,文章研究了具有随机工资和保费返还条款,且面临通胀风险的DC养老金均衡投资策略.假设养老金参与者连续不断地将其随机工资的固定比例作为保费缴纳到自己的养老金账户,基金经理将保费投资于一个无风险资产,一支股票和一支通胀指数债券以使养老金保值增值.其中股票预期收益率是随机的,并遵循均值回复过程,但基金经理无法直接观测.由于考虑了保费返还条款,则在累积期间死亡的参与者可提取按预先设定利率累积的保费.基金经理的决策目标是使每个幸存参与者养老金的终端价值期望最大化,并最小化终端价值的方差.利用滤波技术和纳什均衡框架,文章得到了DC养老金均衡策略和均衡值函数的解析式.最后,数值算例表明保费返还条款和信息损失都会使基金经理对风险投资更谨慎,但是保费返还条款对通胀指数债券均衡策略的影响更显著,而信息损失对股票均衡策略的影响更显著.     

部分信息下股票付息的Black-Scholes期权定价公式和一类最优投资问题

假定金融市场中的投资者仅掌握部分信息,即投资者仅能观测到股票和债券价格,而股票的瞬时回报率和市场的噪声源不能观测.对存款利率和贷款利率不相等的情形,运用凸分析和滤波技术得到了部分信息下股票付红利的Black-Scholes期权定价公式.对部分信息下最大化终端财富的问题,获得了最优投资策略.     

模糊厌恶下最小Drawdown概率的最优投资再保险策略

该文考虑了模糊厌恶下保险公司的最优投资和再保险问题,得到了保险市场和金融市场均存在模糊厌恶时,保险公司盈余的最小drawdown概率及其最优鲁棒投资和再保险策略的解析解.通过数值分析得出一些重要参数对值函数的影响.     

模型不确定和极端事件冲击下带通胀的最优投资组合选择问题研究

本文研究了投资者在极端事件冲击下带通胀的最优投资组合选择问题, 其中投资者不仅对损失风险是厌恶的而且对模型不确定也是厌恶的. 投资者在风险资产和无风险资产中进行投资. 首先, 利用Ito公式推导考虑通胀的消费篮子价格动力学方程, 其次由通胀折现的终端财富预期效用最大化, 对含糊厌恶投资者的最优期望效用进行刻画. 利用动态规划原理, 建立最优消费和投资策略所满足的HJB方程. 再次, 利用市场分解的方法解出HJB方程, 获得投资者最优消费和投资策略的显式解. 最后, 通过数值模拟, 分析了含糊厌恶、风险厌恶、跳和通胀因素对投资者最优资产配置策略的影响.     

最小化破产概率的保险人鲁棒投资再保险策略研究

在模型不确定条件下,研究以破产概率最小化为目标的模糊厌恶型保险公司的最优投资再保险问题. 假设保险公司可投资于一种风险资产,也可购买比例再保险. 分别考虑风险资产的价格过程服从随机波动率模型和非随机波动率模型的两种情况,根据动态规划原理建立相应的HJB方程,得到保险公司的最优鲁棒投资再保险策略和价值函数的解析解. 最后,通过数值模拟分析了各模型参数对最优策略和价值函数的影响.     

不完全市场下考虑损失厌恶的连续时间投资组合选择

在不完全市场条件下研究了一般情形下的损失厌恶投资者的连续时间投资组合选择模型. 面对市场风险, 投资者的偏好由一个S-型的价值函数定义. 通过把不完全市场转换为完全市场, 利用鞅方法和复制技术, 分别获得了投资者的最优期末财富以及最优投资策略. 最后讨论了一个分段幂函数的例子, 在模型系数为确定的常数情形下, 得到了最优解的显示表达式.     

考虑通胀风险与最低绩效保障的损失厌恶型保险公司的最优投资与再保险策略

该文研究了损失厌恶型保险公司的最优投资与再保险策略,其中考虑了通胀风险与最低绩效保障.假设保险盈余与通胀指数债券过程和股价过程具有相关性,保险公司的投资选择包括通胀指数债券,股票和无风险资产,同时,保险公司可以购买比例再保险来分散风险.该文在期望S型效用最大化准则下,运用鞅方法得到了最优投资与再保险策略的详细表达式,并通过数值模拟分析了参数变化对投资与再保险策略的影响.     

Optimal management of DC pension plan under loss aversion and Value-at-Risk constraints

This paper studies the risk management in a defined contribution (DC)pension plan. The financial market consists of cash, bond and stock. The interest rate in our model is assumed to follow an Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process while the contribution rate follows a geometric Brownian Motion. Thus, the pension manager has to hedge the risks of interest rate, stock and contribution rate. Different from most works in DC pension plan, the pension manger has to obtain the optimal allocations under loss aversion and Value-at-Risk(VaR) constraints. The loss aversion pension manager is sensitive to losses while the VaR pension manager has to ensure the quality of wealth at retirement. Since these problems are not standard concave optimization problems, martingale method is applied to derive the optimal investment strategies. Explicit solutions are obtained under these two optimization criterions. Moreover, sensitivity analysis is presented in the end to show the economic behaviors under these two criterions.     

Optimal management of DC pension plan in a stochastic interest rate and stochastic volatility framework

This paper investigates an optimal investment strategy of DC pension plan in a stochastic interest rate and stochastic volatility framework. We apply an affine model including the Cox–Ingersoll–Ross (CIR) model and the Vasicek mode to characterize the interest rate while the stock price is given by the Heston’s stochastic volatility (SV) model. The pension manager can invest in cash, bond and stock in the financial market. Thus, the wealth of the pension fund is influenced by the financial risks in the market and the stochastic contribution from the fund participant. The goal of the fund manager is, coping with the contribution rate, to maximize the expectation of the constant relative risk aversion (CRRA) utility of the terminal value of the pension fund over a guarantee which serves as an annuity after retirement. We first transform the problem into a single investment problem, then derive an explicit solution via the stochastic programming method. Finally, the numerical analysis is given to show the impact of financial parameters on the optimal strategies.     

基于通货膨胀和最低保障的DC养老金最优投资

主要研究了通货膨胀和最低保障下的DC养老金的最优投资问题。 首先, 应用伊藤公式得到通胀折现后真实股票价格的微分方程。 然后, 在DC养老金终端财富外部保障约束下, 引入欧式看涨期权, 考虑随机通胀环境下的退休时刻终端财富期望效用最大化问题, 应用鞅方法推导退休时刻以及退休前任意时刻DC养老金最优投资策略的显式解。 最后, 应用蒙特卡洛方法对结果进行数值分析, 分析最低保障对DC养老金最优投资策略的影响。     

Asset allocation under loss aversion and minimum performance constraint in a DC pension plan with inflation risk

In this paper we investigate an optimal investment strategy for a defined-contribution (DC) pension plan member who is loss averse, pays close attention to inflation and longevity risks and requires a minimum performance at retirement. The member aims to maximize the expected S-shaped utility from the terminal wealth exceeding the minimum performance by investing her wealth in a financial market consisting of an indexed bond, a stock and a risk-free asset. We derive the optimal investment strategy in closed-form using the martingale approach. Our theoretical and numerical results reveal that the wealth proportion invested in each risky asset has a V-shaped pattern in the reference point level, while it always increases in the rising lifespan; with a positive correlation between salary and inflation risks, the presence of salary decreases the member’s investment in risky assets; the minimum performance helps to hedge the longevity risk by increasing her investment in risky assets.     

随机环境下具有最低担保约束的DC养老金鲁棒投资策略

针对近年来养老金管理遇到的问题,基于模型不确定性,考虑随机环境和退休保障限制的DC型养老金最优投资策略具有重要意义.以养老金的最终价值相对于退休后年金担保的不变相对风险厌恶期望效用最大化为目标,利用随机动态规划的方法,求出鲁棒最优投资策略及相应的价值函数.最后,通过数值分析,得到各参数对最优投资策略的影响.     

Optimal investment for a pension fund under inflation risk

This paper investigates an optimal investment problem faced by a defined contribution (DC) pension fund manager under inflationary risk. It is assumed that a representative member of a DC pension plan contributes a fixed share of his salary to the pension fund during the finite time horizon [0, T]. The pension contributions are invested continuously in a risk-free bond, an index bond and a stock. The objective is to maximize the expected utility of terminal value of the pension fund. By solving this investment problem we present a way to deal with the optimization problem, in case there is a (positive) endowment (or contribution), using the martingale method.     

Optimal investment strategies and risk measures in defined contribution pension schemes

In this paper, we derive a formula for the optimal investment allocation (derived from a dynamic programming approach) in a defined contribution (DC) pension scheme whose fund is invested in n assets. We then analyse the particular case of n=2 (where we consider the presence in the market of a high-risk and a low-risk asset whose returns are correlated) and study the investment allocation and the downside risk faced by the retiring member of the DC scheme, where optimal investment strategies have been adopted. The behaviour of the optimal investment strategy is analysed when changing the disutility function and the correlation between the assets. Three different risk measures are considered in analysing the final net replacement ratios achieved by the member: the probability of failing the target, the mean shortfall and a value at risk (VaR) measure. The replacement ratios encompass the financial and annuitisation risks faced by the retiree. We consider the relationship between the risk aversion of the member and these different risk measures in order to understand better the choices confronting different categories of scheme member. We also consider the sensitivity of the results to the level of the correlation coefficient.     

Precommitment and equilibrium investment strategies for defined contribution pension plans under a jump–diffusion model

In this paper, we study an optimal investment problem under the mean–variance criterion for defined contribution pension plans during the accumulation phase. To protect the rights of a plan member who dies before retirement, a clause on the return of premiums for the plan member is adopted. We assume that the manager of the pension plan is allowed to invest the premiums in a financial market, which consists of one risk-free asset and one risky asset whose price process is modeled by a jump–diffusion process. The precommitment strategy and the corresponding value function are obtained using the stochastic dynamic programming approach. Under the framework of game theory and the assumption that the manager’s risk aversion coefficient depends on the current wealth, the equilibrium strategy and the corresponding equilibrium value function are also derived. Our results show that with the same level of variance in the terminal wealth, the expected optimal terminal wealth under the precommitment strategy is greater than that under the equilibrium strategy with a constant risk aversion coefficient; the equilibrium strategy with a constant risk aversion coefficient is revealed to be different from that with a state-dependent risk aversion coefficient; and our results can also be degenerated to the results of He and Liang (2013b) and Björk et al. (2014). Finally, some numerical simulations are provided to illustrate our derived results.     

通胀风险下基于HARA效用的DC型养老金计划

通货膨胀是养老基金管理过程中最直接最重要的影响因素之一. 假设通胀风险由服从几何布朗运动的物价指数来度量, 且瞬时期望通货膨胀率由Ornstein-Uhlenbeck过程来驱动. 金融市场由n+1种可连续交易的风险资产所构成, 养老基金管理者期望研究和解决通胀风险环境下DC型养老基金在累积阶段的最优投资策略问题, 以最大化终端真实财富过程的期望效用. 双曲绝对风险厌恶(HARA)效用函数具有一般的效用框架, 包含幂效用、指数效用和对数效用作为特例. 假设投资者对风险的偏好程度满足HARA效用, 运用随机最优控制理论和Legendre变换方法得到了最优投资策略的显式表达式.