“…Typically, the properties of S n (c) are derived when n becomes large, i.e., n → ∞, see Beirlant and Teugels [8], Ladoucette and Teugels [19], Ladoucette and Teugels [20], Ladoucette and Teugels [21] which also present several financial and insurance applications. In other applications, for instance when modelling the financial losses of n portfolios, it is not possible to change the number of portfolios under investigation, and therefore of interest is the tail asymptotic behaviour of S n (c) for each fixed n. The recent contribution Asimit et al [5] (see also Asimit and Badescu [2], Asimit and Jones [3], Asimit and Jones [4]) shows that under weak asymptotic conditions P (S n (c) > x) ∼ P (c 1 X n,n > x) as x → ∞, which means that the maximum controls the asymptotic behaviour of the L-statistics S n (c). For applications, it is of interest to know the speed of convergence to 0 of ∆(x) = P (S n (c) > x) − P (c 1 X n,n > x), i.e., how well the maximum risk controls the L-statistics S n (c).…”