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ARTHUR H. TEPFER
atepfer@tepferconsulting.com
Mr. Tepfer is the founder of Tepfer Consulting Group, Ltd. 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 43 of his 45-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 College of Pension
Actuaries where he recently completed a two year term as National
Secretary, a Member of the American Academy of
Actuaries, an Associate of the Society of Actuaries, a Member of the
American Society of Pension Professionals and 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 and large collectively bargained multi-employer plans. 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.
In his current capacity, Mr. Tepfer is President and Actuary for TCG
Public Consulting, Ltd. which is affiliated with Tepfer Consulting
Group, Ltd. TCG Public
Consulting, Ltd. specializes in providing services to the public sector
police and firefighters 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 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 subject matter expert
on ethics and professionalism for the American Society of Pension
Professionals and Actuaries, as a faculty member of the Northern
Illinois University’s Pension Trustee Certification Program and has
formally served as a member of the Academy Committee on Pension
Accounting, the chair of the American Society of Pension Professionals
and Actuaries subcommittee on drafting Practice Guidelines on the
selection of economic actuarial assumptions, a member of the editorial
board of the magazine “Compensation and Benefit Manager’s Monthly”, and
a question writer and member of the Joint Board for Enrollment of
Actuaries Examination Committee and the Society of Actuaries Education
and Examination Committee for
Actuarial Testimony.
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