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ARTHUR H. TEPFER
atepfer@tepferconsulting.com
Mr. Tepfer is a Principal and Actuary for Tepfer Consulting Group, Ltd., an actuarial,
administrative and employee benefit consulting firm in Northbrook, Illinois. Prior
to forming Tepfer Consulting Group, Ltd. in 1995, Mr. Tepfer was a founding principal
of Tepfer & Spitz, Ltd. Earlier Mr. Tepfer was Midwestern Managing Director
of the Actuarial and Employee Benefit Practice for Laventhol & Horwath. During
recent years, Mr. Tepfer has held positions as Senior Vice President of Hay/Huggins
Company, Inc. and was President of his own firm.
Mr. Tepfer has spent the last 33 of his 35-year actuarial career working as
a consulting actuary. Before forming his own company in 1981, he was associated
with Jaffe & Associates, Ltd. and the Martin E. Segal Company. He is a Member
of the American Academy of Actuaries, an Associate of the Society of Actuaries,
a Member of the American Society of Pension Actuaries and an Enrolled Actuary.
He holds a B.A. degree from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
During his career, Mr. Tepfer has served as a consultant to the employee benefit
plans of many Fortune 500 corporations, public retirement plans and large collectively
bargained multi-employer plans. In his current capacity, his primary responsibility
is the development of new business as well as employee benefits consulting to
small and mid-sized companies. Additionally, he has developed a national reputation
in providing expert testimony with regard to actuarial matters in matrimonial
dissolutions, loss of income situations and ERISA litigation.
Mr. Tepfer has performed consulting and actuarial services for many public
plans and government agencies. His clients have included statewide pension funds
in Arizona, Oklahoma, and Puerto Rico; citywide agencies including the New York
Metropolitan Transit Authority, the Chicago Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
and the City Colleges of Chicago; and Municipal Police and Fire pension funds
throughout the State of Illinois.
Mr. Tepfer has lectured on pension matters at many professional actuarial meetings
and has conducted seminars in association with Harvard University, the Chicago
Association of Commerce and Industry, the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois
Judges Association and the Illinois CPA Foundation. He has lectured on pension
matters and expert actuarial testimony to the annual Enrolled Actuaries Meeting
and the American Society of Pension Actuaries Meetings in Washington D.C. on pension
matters and expert actuarial testimony. As part of the Chicago Bar Association
Continuing Legal Education Committee, he has lectured to the matrimonial section
in a number of seminars regarding expert testimony in marital dissolutions. In
April 1987, he served as a faculty member and conducted a seminar sponsored by
the Society of Actuaries on "Actuarial Involvement in Litigation". He
has also served on the Society of Actuaries Education and Examination Committee
for Actuarial Testimony. He currently serves as a member of the pool of investigators
for the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline, as the chair of the ASPA
subcommittee on drafting Practice Guidelines on the selection of economic actuarial
assumptions, as a member of the editorial board of the magazine “Compensation
and Benefit Manager’s Monthly”, as a faculty member of Northern Illinois University’s
Pension Trustee Certification Program and as a question writer and member of the
Joint Board for Enrollment of Actuaries Examination Committee.
Mr. Tepfer currently is a regular contributor for the Illinois Public Pension
Fund Association newsletter and is a frequent contributor to many professional
journals. Among his publishing credits are the following:
- "The Value of Defined Benefit Pension Benefits in Marriage Dissolutions",
ISBA Family Law Newsletter, June 1980
- "Valuing Defined Benefit Plans", Family Advocate magazine, ABA
Family Law Section, Spring, 1983.
- Discussion Commentary, "Actuarial Involvement in Divorce Litigation,"
by M. Projector, Proceedings, Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice XXXIII,
pp. 494-544
- "Actuarial Litigation Support", American Society of Pension Actuaries,
Pension Actuaries and Consultants Conference, October, 1990
He has also edited the chapters on retirement plans in author Terry Savage’s
two national bestsellers on managing money: “Terry Savage Talks Money” and “New
Money Strategies for the ‘90s”.
Recently Published Articles include:
- “Deferred Retirement Option Plans”, Pension and Benefits Week, Research Institute
of America, October 13, 1998
- “Deferred Retirement Option Plans”, IPMA News, International Personnel Management
Association, August, 1999
- “Actuarially Neutral DROP is a matter of opinion”, IPPFA Newsletter, Winter
1999-2000.
For Compensation and Benefit Manager’s Monthly:
- “Are Hardship Distributions Destroying Your Plan?”, October, 1998
- “How to Successfully Navigate through the Myriad Rules - Effects of Mergers,
Acquisitions and Dispositions”, November, 1998
- “Coping with the New Laws in Your Pension Documents--Decisions, Decisions,
Decisions”, December, 1998; February, 1999; April, 1999
- “Rules, Rules and More Rules”, June, 1999
- “A Fruit Salad By Any Other Name… QSERP’s a new idea?”, December, 1999.
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