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.

There is a growing interest in the use of the tail conditional expectation as a measure of risk. For an institution faced with a random loss, the tail conditional expectation represents the conditional average amount of loss that can be incurred in a fixed period, given that the loss exceeds a specified value. This value is typically based on the quantile of the loss distribution, the so-called value-at-risk. The tail conditional expectation can therefore provide a measure of the amount of capital needed due to exposure to loss. This paper examines this risk measure for “exponential dispersion models”, a wide and popular class of distributions to actuaries which, on one hand, generalizes the Normal and shares some of its many important properties, but on the other hand, contains many distributions of nonnegative random variables like the Gamma and the Inverse Gaussian.

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.

There is a growing interest in the use of the tail conditional expectation as a measure of risk. For an institution faced with a random loss, the tail conditional expectation represents the conditional average amount of loss that can be incurred in a fixed period, given that the loss exceeds a specified value. This value is typically based on the quantile of the loss distribution, the so-called value-at-risk. The tail conditional expectation can therefore provide a measure of the amount of capital needed due to exposure to loss. This paper examines this risk measure for “exponential dispersion models”, a wide and popular class of distributions to actuaries which, on one hand, generalizes the Normal and shares some of its many important properties, but on the other hand, contains many distributions of nonnegative random variables like the Gamma and the Inverse Gaussian.

The four-parameter distribution family, the generalised beta type-II (GB2), also known as the transformed beta distribution, has been proposed for modelling insurance losses. As special cases, this family nests many distributions with light and heavy tails, including the lognormal, gamma, Weibull, Burr and generalised gamma distributions. This paper extends the GB2 family to thecontaminatedGB2 family, which offers many flexible features, including bimodality and a wide range of skewness and kurtosis. Properties of the contaminated distribution are derived and evaluated in a simulation study and the suitability of the contaminated GB2 distribution for actuarial purposes is demonstrated through two real loss data sets. Analysis of tail quantiles for the data suggests large differences in extreme quantile estimates for different loss distribution assumptions, showing that the selection of appropriate distributions has a significant impact for insurance companies.