Actuarial Alumni Club News

Hickman-Larson Update

$1,500,000 Required for Endowed Professorship

$295,294 Balance at Campaign Start
$343,739 Donations to Date
$162,416 Outstanding Pledges
$ 96,357 Investment Earnings
$897,806 03/31/2007 Total (60% of Goal)

Donation Breakdown:

To Date: $343,739 (78 total 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 (3 new donors)
3Q 2006: $ 5,450 (13 new donors)
2Q 2006: $34,200 (8 new donors)
1Q 2006: $ 3,150 (3 new donors)
4Q 2005: $52,330 (27 new donors)
3Q 2005: $31,250 (6 new donors)

Competitor News

  • 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

    • 03-2008: Shujuan Liu, Caroline Waxler
    • 02-2008: Quentin Doll, Kelly Gorst, Bilal Khan, Arina Limisco, Honglei Qu, Ann Sturner, Ginger Werwie
    • 01-2008 (CAS): Travis Grulkowski, Tatyanna Kerbel, Kevin Roll, Benjamin Walker
    • 11-2007: Carolyn Bittner, Craig Lano, Chad Runchey, Lucas Sondelski, Alan Vanevenhoven, Benjamin Wacker
    • 09-2007: Jia Hu, Kimberly Steiner, Adam Vanevenhoven
    • 07-2007 (CAS): Amy DeHart, Brian Mullen, Jiyang Song
    • 05-2007: Hsiu-An Lin, Zohair Motiwalla

    New Associates

    • 04-2008: Jiangtao Ge, Eric Lehman, Kathryn Nelson
    • 03-2008: Steven Laabs, Eric Viney
    • 02-2008: Yan Zhao
    • 01-2008: Osman Ahmed, Huijuan Chen
    • 12-2007: Jie Gao, Sung-Po Lin, Smita Rao
    • 11-2007: Jianwen Liu, Wei Xie
    • 10-2007: Kathryn Campbell, Suneeti Nandal, Ning Wang
    • 09-2007: Kari Feragen, Ju-Han Hsieh, Joeng Kim, Qian Li
    • 08-2007: Abigail Beyer, Kelly Boschke, Matthew Stahl
    • 07-2007: Jason Sciborski, Mitchell Underwood (CAS), Timothy Yiu
    • 06-2007: Jason Choi, Justin Dietz, Xiangxiang Luo, Glen O'Halleran, David Padget, Robert Plesha
    • 05-2007: Kim Basco, Christopher Catlett, Charles Davis, Suyauwaty Tjandrasa

    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)