Richard J. Hudson FCA MAAA FSA EA

Consulting Actuary, First Actuarial Consulting, Inc.

CCA Member Since 2004

Contact Information
First Actuarial Consulting, Inc.
1501 Broadway
Suite 1728
New York, NY 10036
US
Email: rhudson@factuarial.com
Mr. Hudson is a consulting actuary in the Times Square office of FACT. He has over 30 years of experience with retirement programs, helping clients address design, funding, risk mitigation, compliance, administration, and communication issues. He has extensive experience working with multiemployer and single employer pension plans and has experience with funds of all sizes in a wide variety of industries. Most recently he has been focused on risk mitigation and developing plan design strategies to address the risks faced by Boards of Trustees and Plan Sponsors. He has developed simulation programs to assess the level of risk in a pension plan and the effect of alternative plan design strategies in reducing the overall level of risk. Mr. Hudson is a frequent speaker at trustee- and professional-education conferences for actuaries and attorneys and is author on a white paper regarding alternative plan design strategies. He 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 under ERISA. Mr. Hudson holds a B.S. in applied mathematics and a B.E. in electrical engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Practice Area(s)

Retirement
Corporate DB/DCOther Pension SubsetRetiree Medical FAS106Taft-Hartley
Health & Welfare
Retiree Benefits
Other
Expert WitnessInvestmentSoftware DevelopmentStrategic Planning

Connections:

Current CCA Committees

Pension Actuarial Resource Committee

CCA Speaking Engagements

Is This Multiemployer Plan Still Working for Us and if Not, What Would? 2020 CCA Virtual Annual Meeting (October 21, 2020)

Multiemployer Variable Benefit Plans - Innovative Design and Regulatory Hurdles 2018 Enrolled Actuaries Meeting (April 09, 2018)

Innovative Designs (Not CB) -- Variable Annuity 2013 Enrolled Actuaries Meeting (April 08, 2013)