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Tail Variance Premium with Applications for Elliptical Portfolio of Risks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2015

Edward Furman  and
Zinoviy Landsman
Edward Furman
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, Actuarial Research Center, University of Haifa, Haifa, 31905, Israel. E-mail: efurman@stat.haifa.ac.il
Zinoviy Landsman
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, Actuarial Research Center, University of Haifa, Haifa, 31905, Israel. E-mail: landsman@stat.haifa.ac.il
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Abstract

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In this paper we consider the important circumstances involved when risk managers are concerned with risks that exceed a certain threshold. Such conditions are well-known to insurance professionals, for instance in the context of policies involving deductibles and reinsurance contracts. We propose a new premium called tail variance premium (TVP) which answers the demands of these circumstances. In addition, we suggest a number of risk measures associated with TVP. While the well-known tail conditional expectation risk measure provides a risk manager with information about the average of the tail of the loss distribution, tail variance risk measure (TV) estimates the variability along such a tail. Furthermore, given a multivariate setup, we offer a number of allocation techniques which preserve different desirable properties (sub-additivity and fulladditivity, for instance). We are able to derive explicit expressions for TV and TVP, and risk capital decomposition rules based on them, in the general framework of multivariate elliptical distributions. This class is very popular among actuaries and risk managers because it contains distributions with marginals whose tails are heavier than those of normal distributions. This distinctive feature is desirable when modeling financial datasets. Moreover, according to our results, in some cases there exists an optimal threshold, such that by choosing it, an insurance company minimizes its risk.

Keywords

Premium Calculation PrincipleRisk MeasureRisk Capital AllocationTail Variance PremiumTail Standard Deviation PremiumTail Covariance PremiumTail Conditional ExpectationElliptical Distributions
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ASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the IAA , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , November 2006 , pp. 433 - 462
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Copyright © ASTIN Bulletin 2006

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