My guest for Episode 84 is Zorast Wadia, FSA, MAAA, EA, FCA, CFA, Principal and Consulting Actuary at Milliman.

The theme for the episode is 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲.

Zorast and I explore the following topics:⁣

✅ Defined benefit (DB) plans and defined contribution (DC) plans
✅ Plan sponsors, valuation actuaries, and retirement plan operations
✅ Cash valuation and financial accounting valuation
✅ Differences between corporate and public pension plans
✅ Milliman’s Corporate Pension Funding Study
✅ Environmental changes that recently shined a light on DB plans
✅ The unfreezing of IBM’s DB plan and its implications for the market
✅ The American Rescue Plan Act
✅ Risk retention, risk management, and risk transfer for DB plans
✅ Annuity purchase activity for frozen DB plans 

If you are interested in learning about the retirement space, you want to listen to this.

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