The assessment of portfolio risk is often explicitly (e.g., the square root formula under Basel III) or implicitly (e.g., credit risk portfolio models) driven by the marginal distributions of the risky components and the correlations amongst them. We assess the extent by which such practice is...

In this paper we propose a robust assessment for the net premium of a standard lifeinsurance contract with respect to the uncertainty on the estimated residual lifetimedistribution function. Specifically, we provide a method to derive the range of valuesthat the net premium of a given contract...