Look-through Approach

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Definition

Look-through Approach (LTA) denotes an approach to Risk Analysis that drills-down to and incorporates Risk Data and related considerations involving a deeper (second or more) layer.

Advantages

  • Elimination of blind spots
  • Capturing dependencies

Disadvantages

Examples

  • In analysing the credit risk in a portfolio of Securitisation one can manage at the level of securities or look-through to the underlying claims / collateral