Financial Perspectives

Understand financial perspectives and their use in calculating loss statistics

Overview

A financial perspective (also called a position) is a financial structure that determines how loss statistics are calculated.

An analysis may be defined by multiple financial perspectives; the relevance of each financial perspective depends on the use case.

For example, the ground up loss (GU) financial perspective represents total loss to the exposure and excludes any insurance or reinsurance terms in the loss calculations. The gross loss (GR) financial perspective represents the loss to the insurer, accounting for the application of all insurance terms but without consideration for any reinsurance recoveries. Multiple positions can be output for the same analysis, and the relevance of each position varies between users and use cases. Some financial perspectives affect estimates of property (P) loss or worker's compensation (WC) loss.

Financial perspectives are generally identified by a two-letter code in Platform API requests and responses. Not every financial perspective is supported for every type of analysis:

CodeNameScopeDLMHDALM
C0Total CasualtiesWCYNN
C1Medical Only InjuriesWCYNY
C2Temporary Total InjuriesWCYNY
C3Permanent Partial-Minor InjuriesWCYNY
C4Permanent Partial-Major InjuriesWCYNY
C5Permanent Total InjuriesWCYNY
C6FatalitiesWCYNY
CGInjury Level CasualtiesWCYNN
CLClient LossPYNN
FAFacultative Reinsurance LossPYYN
GRGross LossPYYY
GUGround Up LossPYYN
I0Ground Up Loss: IndemnityWCYNN
IGInjury Level Losses: IndemnityWCYNN
LGInjury Level LossesWCYNN
M0Ground Up Loss: MedicalWCYNN
MGInjury Level Losses: MedicalWCYNN
NPPeople AnalyzedWCYNY
OIOther Insurer's LossPYNN
OLOver Limit LossPYNN
QSQuota Share Treaty LossPYYN
RCNet Loss Post Corporate CatPYNY
RGReinsurance Gross LossPYYY
RLNet Loss Pre CatPYYY
RNReinsurance Net LossPYYY
RPNet Loss Post CatPYYY
SSSurplus Share Treaty LossPYYN
TVTotal ValuePYNN
UCUnderlying CoveragePYNN
WXWorking Excess Treaty LossPYYN

Financial perspectives are understood to be upstream or downstream of one another. The position of one perspective relative to one another perspective is an important factor in financial perspective mapping. For more information, see Map perspective by analysis.

For a detailed explanation of each financial perspective and its use in catastrophe modeling, see Risk Modeler User Guide in the Moody's RMS Support Center