Aggregate Risk
Management
Aggregate Risk Models
An aggregate risk model is a probabilistic model used to estimate the
total loss or total claim amount over a specified period (such as a year)
or on a defined set of insurance contracts, by combining:
The number of claims (or events), and
The amount of each individual claim
Risk Models
Individual Risk Model
Record losses for each contract and then add them up
Collective Risk Model
Record losses as claims are made and then add them up
Individual Risk Model
The individual risk model represents the aggregate loss as a sum
of a fixed number of insurance contracts
where
• denotes the aggregate loss for n (a fixed number) contracts
• denotes the loss for the ith contract for
• are assumed to independent but are not necessarily identically
distributed, due to different coverage or exposure
• usually has a probability mass at zero
Collective Risk Model
The collective risk model has representation
with S being the aggregate loss of N (a random number) individual
claims
Key assumptions
• Conditional on are i.i.d. random variables
• The distribution of N and the common distribution of X are
independent of each other.
Two building blocks: frequency N and severity X
Example:
Policy ID Claim ID Loss
Amount
1 - -
2 1 10
3 1 10
3 2 10
4 1 10
4 2 10
4 3 10
Aggregate losses:
• Individual Risk Model: 0 + 10 + 20 + 30 = 60
• Collective Risk Model: 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 =
60
Compound Poisson Approximation
for Individual Risk Model
Swedish Motor Dataset