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Title: Premium Calculation from Top Down
Author(s): BÜHLMANN, Hans
Journal: ASTIN Bulletin
Volume: 15    Issue: 2   Date: November 1985   
Pages: 89-101
DOI: 10.2143/AST.15.2.2015021

Abstract :
This paper is intended to show how premiums are related to the stabdlty criterion imposed on a portfolio of risks and to the dwidend requirements for the capital invested into the insurance operation. The point is that premium calculation should be seen as a consequence of the strategic concepts adopted by the insurance carrier.