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Reference: Common Help topics
Abbreviations
Some abbreviations used in Touchstone.

Using Touchstone online Help
You can access the top-level or context-sensitive Touchstone online help from within the application or from the Client Portal. You can then search for content, bookmark pages, and generate output to other formats.
Import data from external sources
You can import exposure data, map layers, projects, and reinsurance packages from external sources into Touchstone databases.
Projects and exposure views
Projects are a useful way to organize your data. They contain exposure views that contain the data that you want to focus on.
Geospatial analysis
Geospatial analysis enables you to perform a deterministic risk analysis with your own view of risk on accumulations of property exposures and workers' compensation information in given areas exposed to natural and man-made catastrophes.
Exposure data validation
Verisk provides a reference containing information about Touchstone exposure data.
Data Quality analysis
The most effective way to assess and enhance portfolio-level or contract-level catastrophe exposure data is to use Touchstone's Data Quality diagnostics. These diagnostics enable you to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the exposure data you are using for analyses and supplement that data when it is missing or weak.
Hazard analysis
Hazard analysis enable you to identify the relevant catastrophe hazards for locations in your exposure data.
About loss analyses
Touchstone enables you to model catastrophic (CAT) events to estimate property and workers' compensation losses.
Reinsurance
The Reinsurance Program Manager enables you to create, import, and manage reinsurance programs.
Touchstone data export types
Touchstone enables you to export different types of data.
Activity Monitor
The Activity Monitor displays the status of all activities.
Managing data sources
Use Data Source Management to manage Touchstone databases.
User model management
Use User Model Management to build custom non-Verisk models and seamlessly integrate them into Touchstone.
Model Builder
Administration Console
User interface
Reference: Common Help topics
- Abbreviations
  Some abbreviations used in Touchstone.
- CATRADER
- CAT XOL analysis
  A catastrophe excess of loss reinsurance program (CAT XOL) indemnifies the ceding company for that portion of the loss that exceeds the limit of its own retention per event.
- Currency rate settings
  In the Administration Console, manage the currency defaults, exchange rates, and conversion table for generating exposure views, running analyses, and viewing results.
- Customize demand surge
  Steps to review and adjust demand surge for Touchstone/Touchstone Re.
- Guide to currency settings
- Industry Exposure Database
  Our Industry Exposure Database contains industry-wide data on aggregate exposures for sums insured, number of risks, building attributes, and insurance premium data by line of business and payroll.
- Verisk Models

Abbreviations

Some abbreviations used in Touchstone.


Abbreviation	Description
AAL	Average Annual Loss
AGG	Aggregate
AOL	Annual Occurrence Loss
AX	Aggregate Excess of Loss
CAT	Catastrophe
CAT XOL	Catastrophic Excess of Loss
CB	Catastrophe Bonds
CLF	Company Loss File
ECA	Exposure Concentration Analysis
EDS	EDS
EP	Exceedance Probability
EVT Changes	Changes in loss mappings between Touchstone and CATRADER
GR	Gross
GU	Ground-up (loss)
IF	Inland Flood
IFM	Industrial facilities module (400 series occupancy class codes)
ILW	Industry loss warranty
LLEI	Local-level event intensity
LOB	Line of business
LOC	Location
LOCSUM	Location Summary
MAOL	Maximum Any One Life
MOD	Loss Modification
NC	NonCat (Non Catastrophe) Note: We retired non-catastrophe loss analyses in Touchstone 2021 (9.0).
OCC	Occurrence
PG	Pre-Layer Gross
PR	Per risk
PR	Premiums
QS	Quota share
RDS	Realistic Disaster Scenarios (created by Lloyd's of London)
RT	Retained
SD	Standard Deviation
SI	Sums Insured
SS	Surplus share
STD	Standard deviation curve
TIV	Total Insurable Value
TVAR	Tail value at risk
UNC1	Uncertainty Percentage 1 data
UNC2	Uncertainty Percentage 2 data
WC	Workers' Compensation
XOL	Excess of Loss