For the case of a portfolio with identical claim amount distributions, Gerber's error bound for the compound Poisson approximation is improved (in the case λ ⩾ 1). The result can also be applied to more general portfolios by partitioning them into homogeneous subportfolios.
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R. Michel (1987) studied this question.
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