Actuarial Principles

This session is from the September 2022 Trustee School. Some content may be dated.
 
Session Summary: This session will discuss the revision of Actuarial Standards of Practice (ASOP) No. 4 and the implications it will have on valuation results. It will also discuss what actuarial equivalence means and how to calculate option factors for members' retirements.
 
Presenter:
Ed Koebel, EA, FCA, MAAA
CEO
Cavanaugh Macdonald Consulting

Credits: This course is worth 1.0 GAPPT CEC (Continuing Education Credit). It also qualifies for 0.1 IACET CEU (Continuing Education Unit).
Instructions: Participants must watch the session video presentation and pass the session assessment to earn GAPPT CECs and IACET CEUs.
Prerequisites: None.
Equipment Requirement: Computer, tablet or smartphone and internet access. To avoid issues, please use Google Chrome as your browser.

Cost: Member Registration: $80.00 / Non-Member Registration: $120.00
 

 

Instructors

Ed Koebel, EA, FCA, MAAA

Ed Koebel is the Chief Executive Officer and Consulting Actuary at CavMac. He has over 30 years of public sector actuarial and consulting experience providing services to all types of public clients.  Ed serves as a lead consulting actuary for many State and Municipal level pension plans in the Southeast and other parts of the country.  As the CEO of CavMac, Ed leads the day-to-day operations of the firm.  He is also the Retirement Practice Leader in our office and is responsible for the development and mentoring of our junior staff.

Ed is an educator for the Certificate of Achievement in Public Plan Policy (CAPPP) for Pension I – Actuarial Principles for the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. He is also a speaker at conferences for national and local organizations serving public plans in the United States, including NCTR, P2F2, and the Georgia Association of Public Plan Trustees (GAPPT).

Education: B.A. in Actuarial Science from Syracuse University

As a regular GAPPT presenter, Mr. Koebel has received information regarding educational instructional methods and adult learning processes.

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