Speaker:      Matt Deveney, FSA, EA, MAAA

Abstract:      Actuarial modeling can be a powerful business tool. Using Pensions as a backdrop, we’ll explore how models can help in decision making and how it’s possible for them to go wrong. Then, through a series of entertaining stories, we’ll find out how Actuaries are related Monk’s brewing beer and building the world’s first rail roads.

Brief Speaker's Biography      Matt graduated from Townson University in 2001 with a B.S. in mathematics and a concentration in actuarial science.
Matt has more than 20 years of experience as a consulting actuary working with pension plans. Currently he works with Union plans to help them ensure they have enough assets to pay for the benefits they have promised. He has worked with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. and the Treasury Department to review various pension plans’ ability to remain solvent. He also created several models for Congress to test various legislative proposals that eventually led to the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act.