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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 28 2 b Solution by
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For excess of loss reinsurance the insurer pays each claim up to its retention level:The cap applies separately to every claim. In particular the retained annual loss is , rather than a single cap on the annual total.
Let be the cumulative distribution function for the claim size on risk , and put . The retained severity on that risk has the original probability density function on and an atom of a measure at of mass . Thus has a compound Poisson distribution with rate and the mixture of these capped severity laws. The mixture's mass at is .
For the capped claim moments, use the tail integral formula for moments. Since for and is zero for ,Substitution into the compound Poisson distribution moment formulas givesEquivalently, the integrals are and . The annual variance uses the retained raw second moments; subtracting their squared means would omit the variation in the Poisson distribution count.
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