Large systematic risks, such as those arising from natural catastrophes, climatic changes and uncertain trends in longevity increases, have risen in prominence at a societal level and, more particularly, have become a highly relevant issue for the insurance industry. Against this background, the...

We use probabilistic arguments to derive an expression for the joint density of the time of ruin and the number of claims until ruin in the classical risk model. From this we obtain a general expression for the probability function of the number of claims until ruin. We also consider the moments...