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The constant elasticity of variance(CEV) model was constructed to study a defined contribution pension plan where benefits were paid by annuity. It also presents the process that the Legendre transform and dual theory can be applied to find an optimal investment policy during a participant’s whole life in the pension plan. Finally, two explicit solutions to exponential utility function in the two different periods (before and after retirement) are revealed. Hence, the optimal investment strategies in the two periods are obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stochastic optimal control problems for a class of reflected diffusion with Poisson jumps in a half-space are considered. The nonlinear Nisio's semigroup for such optimal control problems was constructed. A Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation with the Neumann boundary condition associated with this semigroup was obtained. Then, viscosity solutions of this equation were defined and discussed, and various uniqueness of this equation was also considered. Finally, the value function was such optimal control problems is shown to be a viscosity solution of this equation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]