What's New 9.0

This release of Touchstone Re adds new and enhanced features and models. It is important to note that Touchstone Re has now reached full CATRADER parity and continue to focus on better user experience and new features

For further details of these and other new features and enhancements included in this release refer to the Touchstone Re 2021 Release Documentation posting on the AIR Client Portal.

Models

This release of Touchstone Re includes a full suite of AIR models, some new models to AIR and to Touchstone Re, and some model updates. For a detailed overview of the model updates in this release, refer to the Touchstone Re Release Notes.

Software Enhancements

Highlights include:

  • Multiple business units

    • Allow partition of data into separate databases for accumulation management.

    • Allows import of data into multiple business units.

    • Control access to appropriate users.

  • Multiple Results databases

    • Better management of loss results databases.

    • Control storage of loss analysis results.

  • Event loss distribution import

    • Import event distribution losses for use as the basis for loss analysis.

    • Seamlessly disaggregate to reflect geography and line of business splits based on the distribution of industry losses.

  • Summary EP Loss Import.

    • Additional enhancement to licensable Advanced Loss Modification capabilities include a new EP summary import available for internal, AIR, or third-party model distributions with seamless translation to a format that can be used in a program or portfolio analysis.

    • Import one or more EP summary curves (with flexible geography and peril combinations) to create a loss file package based on AIR catalogs that can then be attached to any program for analysis with reinsurance terms.

  • Multi-year analysis

    • Introduced ability to analyze contracts covering multiple years.

    • Can access cumulative loss distributions across years or for individual years of the contract.

  • U.S. MPCI model

    • Full exposure, hazard, and vulnerability update including the addition of support for previously unmodeled New England states.

    • Expanded reporting capabilities, access to pre-SRA (Standard Reinsurance Agreement) as well as post-SRA company losses, and automatic saving of the Industry Premium Adjustments “rate mask” used for each analysis.

  • Exposure lock and distribute. Specific exposure data can now be locked so what when the data is distributed in the exposure grid, the locked data will not be overwritten.

  • Usability improvements for better handling:

    • Zone sets (creating, exporting and importing).

    • Currency (saving and exporting in currency of choice).

  • China MPCI offers support for

  • India MPCI enhancements include support India Crop now includes support for:

    • CATbond: additional items included on the Information tab.