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Art Tepfer
Arthur H. Tepfer
Secretary
Art Tepfer is a Principal and Actuary for Tepfer Consulting Group, Ltd., an actuarial, administrative, and employee benefit consulting firm in Northbrook, Illinois. During over 40 years working as an actuary, he has spent his last 37 years as a consulting actuary. In addition to the College of Pension Actuaries, Art is a member of the American Academy of Actuaries, an Associate of the Society of Actuaries and 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, Art has served as a consultant to the employee benefit plans of many Fortune 500 corporations, public retirement 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 consultant 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.
Art 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. He served as a faculty member and conducted a seminar sponsored by the Society of Actuaries on "Actuarial Involvement in Litigation". He currently serves as a member of the pool of investigators for the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline, 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 faculty member of Northern Illinois University’s Pension Trustee Certification Program, and has formerly served as 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.
Art currently is a regular contributor for the Illinois Public Pension Fund Association newsletter and is a frequent contributor to many professional journals. He was recently selected by the Department of Labor as one of a small group of practicing actuaries to update the job description of an actuary for the National Occupation Information Network, the primary source of occupational information in the United States.