Cumulant composition for a random sum

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For a random sum of independent claims, conditioning on the count gives and therefore the displayed cumulant-generating function. Write and . The chain rule gives , , and . In raw severity moments , the third cumulant is . Positive exponential moments justify two-sided differentiation near zero; finite ordinary moments alone suffice for the corresponding left derivatives when claims are positive.

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