The Experts: Actuarial Consultants

STEVEN D. BRYSON, FSA, MAAA, FCA, EA
Vice President & Principal
Consulting Actuary, Dallas

Email: SBryson@LewisEllis.com

Steve has 38 years of experience in the actuarial profession. He started his career as an actuarial student with Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company in 1972 and joined Lewis & Ellis in 1984. Steve has utilized his diverse actuarial experience on behalf of employers, life and health insurers, local governments, and state and federal agencies in the following areas:

• Product development and compliance for individual and group A & H products
• Valuation of life, health and pension liabilities
• Actuarial analysis of self-insured group health plans
• Medicare Advantage programs
• Retiree Drug Subsidy attestations
• FASB and GASB reporting for retiree medical and other post-employment benefit plans
• Actuarial support to the accounting profession
• Public and private retirement systems
• Expert witness testimony

Steve is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a Fellow of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries, a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries, and an Enrolled Actuary. When not serving his clients, Steve is an active volunteer, having served on actuarial examination committees, the inaugural Fellowship Admissions Course committee, and the annual meeting committee of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries. He has also been active in the Odyssey of the Mind and Destination Imagination programs, which sponsor extra-curricular creativity competitions for students in the 3rd grade through college.

Upcoming/Recent Professional Activities

3/2010
Addressed the Texas Municipal League. Steve's speech, entitled "TMRS Funding: A Long-term Perspective", deals with setting funding policy for public retirement systems.

11/2009
Addressed the Conference of Consulting Actuaries at their Annual Meeting in Tucson, AZ. Steve spoke on "GASB 43/45: Raiders of the Not-So-Lost ARC" (Session 21) with Bonnie Albritton and "Retiree Medical: (Still) In the Trenches" (Session 17).

10/2008
Addressed the Conference of Consulting Actuaries at their Annual Meeting in Bonita Springs, FL. Steve spoke on "GASB 43/45: In the Trenches", "GASB 43/45: So, What's the Right Answer?", and "Claim Reserving Methods: A Report from the SoA" (with Wesley Campbell). The presentation with Wesley was titled "Comparison of IBNR Methods".

10/2007
Addressed the Conference of Consulting Actuaries at their Annual Meeting in San Antonio. Steve spoke on "GASB In the Trenches" and "Medicare Advantage Bidding: Dos and Don’ts".

Articles
The Medicare Modernization Act and Group Health Plans (2004)