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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 28 2 a Solution by
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For quota share reinsurance the insurer retains the same fraction of each claim, soThe annual retained loss is consequently . Each transformed risk severity has probability density function for . The mixed transformed severity, with the same weights , still gives a compound Poisson distribution. Scaling the expected value and variance givesThis agrees with the general retained-claim formulas because and .
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