Actuarial Risks Faced by Pension Plans

This session is from the September 2024 Trustee School. Content may be dated.
 
Session Summary: This session will address some of the important actuarial risks that affect pension plan liabilities. Trustees and staff members will be provided with both a qualitative and quantitative analysis of each risk to help them better understand and know what to look out for when reviewing their valuation reports and in their conversations with their actuaries throughout the year. 
 
Presenter:
Ed Koebel, EA, FCA, MAAA
CEO
CavMac

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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