Actuarial Alumni Club News

Hickman-Larson Update

$1,500,000 Required for Endowed Professorship

Current status with outstanding pledges (06/30/2009):

$611,280 (40% of Goal)

Paid Gift Breakdown:

To Date: $443,635 (92 total donors)
2Q 2009: $ 3,975 (no new donors)
1Q 2009: $ 3,500 (no new donors)
4Q 2008: $ 40,321 (3 new donors)
3Q 2008: $ 26,600 (1 new donor)
2Q 2008: $ 25,500 (7 new donors)
1Q 2008: $ 6,700 (3 new donors)
4Q 2007: $56,275 (9 new donors)
3Q 2007: $ 4,150 (1 new donor)
2Q 2007: $13,750 (1 new donor)
1Q 2007: $53,908 (6 new donors)
4Q 2006: $82,576 (4 new donors)
3Q 2006: $ 5,450 (13 new donors)
2Q 2006: $34,200 (9 new donors)
1Q 2006: $ 3,150 (3 new donors)
4Q 2005: $52,330 (28 new donors)
3Q 2005: $31,250 (6 new donors)

Competitor News

  • 03-2008: Nebraska begins a 5-year campaign to raise $4.0 M to endow the bulk of their Actuarial Program. As of 09/05/08, they report $0.5 M in gifts and pledges (Large PDF, page 4)
  • 09-2007: Actuarial Professor Virginia Young notes that she left UW for Michigan in 2003 specifically because the UM position was fully-endowed (Large PDF, page 7)
  • 06-2007: Michigan receives $1.5 million from an alumnus to endow an actuarial professorship. The school's foundation also contirbuted $0.5 million to the new fund.
  • 05-2007: Ohio State receives $1.6 million from a former faculty member to endow a math professorship.
  • 05-2006: UW-Milwaukee receives $0.75 million from Northwestern Mutual to support their actuarial program.

    • New Fellows

    • 07-2009 (CAS): Justin Brenden, Patrick Hayden, Michael Stienstra
    • 06-2009: Hiu Wai Chan, Kari Feragen
    • 03-2009: Ee Ling Ng, Glen O'Halleran, David Padget, Christopher Stevens
    • 12-2008: Sheng-Ching Chung, Wei Xie
    • 09-2008: Peter Brey

    New Associates

    • 07-2009 (CAS): Mingjen Chen, Timothy Conrad, Kai Kang, Yuan-Chen Liao, Paul Metzger, Melissa Remus, Thomas Thornburgh
    • 07-2009: Yang Liu, Karen Michel
    • 05-2009: Jason Melbye
    • 04-2009: Lei Wu
    • 03-2009: Mark Freeman, Nicholas Voit, Jeffery Wendorf
    • 02-2009: David Goldmann
    • 01-2009: Sarah Konrad, Siksha Sundaram
    • 11-2008: Pataraporn Treetipbut
    • 09-2008: Ross Moore, Steven Schultz
    • 08-2008: Rory Donohue, Jackie Kaczorowski, Brian Murphy

    Actuarial Exams

    Some Badger actuaries are heavily involved in the testing of future Fellows and Associates.

  • A portion of Jed Frees' 2003 Pension Plan Turnover Study is a part of FAP Module 2, Section 4

  • Jed Frees' guide on report writing is a part of FAP Module 4, Section 8

  • Jim Robinson's guide to Credibility Theory for the Health Actuary is a part of FAP Module 4, Section 4 (PDF)

  • A Long Term Care panel featuring Greg Gurlik is a part of FAP Module 7, Section 4 (PDF)

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