Equilibrium investment strategy for DC pension plan with inflation and stochastic income under Heston’s SV model

Abstract EN

We consider a portfolio selection problem for a defined contribution (DC) pension plan under the mean-variance criteria.

We take into account the inflation risk and assume that the salary income process of the pension plan member is stochastic.

Furthermore, the financial market consists of a risk-free asset, an inflation-linked bond, and a risky asset with Heston’s stochastic volatility (SV).

Under the framework of game theory, we derive two extended Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations systems and give the corresponding verification theorems in both the periods of accumulation and distribution of the DC pension plan.

The explicit expressions of the equilibrium investment strategies, corresponding equilibrium value functions, and the efficient frontiers are also obtained.

Finally, some numerical simulations and sensitivity analysis are presented to verify our theoretical results.