In this paper, we introduce a new model for the risk process based on the general compound Hawkes process (GCHP) for the arrival of claims. We call it the risk model based on the general compound Hawkes process (RMGCHP). The law of large numbers (LLN) and the functional central limit theorem (FCLT) are proved. We also study the main properties of this new risk model: net profit condition, premium principle, and ruin time (including ultimate ruin time) applying the LLN and FCLT for the RMGCHP. We also present, as applications of our results, similar results for the risk model based on the compound Hawkes process (RMCHP) and apply them to the classical risk model based on the compound Poisson process (RMCPP). It follows that all previous results for RMCHP and classical results for RMCPP follow from our results.Definition 1 (counting process). . A counting process is a stochastic process N(t), t ≥ 0, taking positive integer values and satisfying: N(0) = 0. It is almost surely finite, and is a right-continuous step function with increments of size +1. (See, e.g., Daley and Vere-Jones, 1988).Denote by N (t), t ≥ 0, the history of the arrivals up to time t, that is, { N (t), t ≥ 0} is a filtration (an increasing sequence of -algebras). A counting process N(t) can be interpreted as a cumulative count of the number of arrivals into a system up to the current time t.The counting process can also be characterized by the sequence of random arrival times (T 1 , T 2 , ...) at which the counting process N(t) has jumped. The process defined by these arrival times is called a point process.Definition 2 (point process). If a sequence of random variables (T 1 , T 2 , ...), taking values in [0, +∞), has P(0 ≤ T 1 ≤ T 2 ≤ ...) = 1, and the number of points in a 50 WILMOTT magazine