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The aggregate claims distribution of a life insurance portfolio with a pairwise positive dependence structure

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  • Carmen Ribas Mari
  • Antonio Alegre Escolano

    (Universitat de Barcelona)

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The individual life model has always been considered as the one closest to the real situation of the total claims of a life insurance portfolio. It only makes the nearly inevitable assumption of independence of the lifelenghts of insured persons in the portfolio. Many clinical studies, however, have demonstrated positive dependence of paired lives such as husband and wife. In our opinion, it wont be unrealistic expecting a considerable number of married couples in any life insurance portfolio (e.g. life insurance contracts formalized at the time of signing a mortatge) and these dependences materially increase the values for the stop-loss premiums associated to the aggregate claims of the portfolio. Since the stop-loss order is the order followed by any risk averse decison maker, the simplifying hypothesis of independence constitute a real financial danger for the company, in the sense that most of their decisions are based on the aggregated claims distribution. In this paper, we will determine approximations for the distribution of the aggregate claims of a life insurance portfolio with some married couples and we will describe how to make safe decisions when we dont know exactly the dependence structure between the risks in each couple. Results in this paper are partly based on results in Dhaene and Goovaerts (1997).

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  • Carmen Ribas Mari & Antonio Alegre Escolano, 2002. "The aggregate claims distribution of a life insurance portfolio with a pairwise positive dependence structure," Working Papers in Economics 90, Universitat de Barcelona. Espai de Recerca en Economia.
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