Intergenerational risk sharing in a defined contribution pension system: analysis with Bayesian optimization
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title: Intergenerational risk sharing in a defined contribution pension system: analysis with Bayesian optimization
zbMATH Open document ID: 1548.91091
author: An Chen
author: Motonobu Kanagawa
author: Fangyuan Zhang
published in: ASTIN Bulletin
publication date: 2024-07-09T00:00:00Z
review text: This paper considers a fully funded, collective defined contribution (DC) pension system in the presence of multiple overlapping generations. The focus is to investigate whether the welfare of participants may be improved by intergenerational risk sharing (IRS). To this end, a realistic investment strategy with no borrowing is implemented in the absence of external financing of the pension fund. Specifically, in the implementation of the IRS, the pension system adopts an automatic adjustment rule for the indexation of individual accounts adapting to the notional funding ratio of the pension system. Two parameters in the pension system determine the investment strategy and the strength of the adjustment rule, which are optimized by expected utility maximization using Bayesian optimization. The authors show that the trade-off between the volatility of the retirement and that of the funding ratio can be controlled by optimal adjustment parameter to attain the IRS. They also show that compared with the optimal individual DC benchmark using the life-cycle strategy, the pension system with the IRS can improve the welfare of risk-averse parameters when the financial market is volatile. Section 2 of the paper describes the IRS-DC pension model, where the pension fund contains multiple overlapping generations. The analysis of the IRS-DC pension model is provided in Section 3. Two key results are presented. Specifically, the first result presented in Proposition 1 describes the impacts of the adjustment parameter on the funding ratio through the first two conditional moments of the log funding ratio. The second result provided in Proposition 2 describes the impacts of the adjustment parameter on the pension benefits through analysing an expression for the retirement benefit of each generation. The effects of intergenerational risk sharing are also studied. The expected utility maximization problem for optimizing the investment strategy and the adjustment parameter is formulat…
reviewed by: Tak Kuen Siu
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91G05
zbMATH DE Number: 7878772
zbMATH Keywords: intergenerational risk sharing
zbMATH Keywords: defined contribution
zbMATH Keywords: automatic adjustment rule
zbMATH Keywords: Bayesian optimization
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
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DOI: 10.1017/ASB.2023.18
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7878772