Availability
In-StockISBN
No ISBN Data foundCurrency
All prices shown in USDDigital Terms
Click here to view our digital terms.A new product will be added to your cart each time you click the Product button. If additional options exist (checkboxes) to further customize your product and you'd like to choose one of the them, please select the option before clicking the product button to add to your cart. Click here to edit your cart.
The purpose of this textbook is to provide the fundamental basics of all aspects of retiree group benefits -- from goals and objectives of providing the benefit to the actuarial considerations of accounting and funding the programs.
This one book contains everything pertaining to the subject of retiree group benefits. Its chapters cover the prevalence of the benefit, Medicare, plan design, funding and legal issues, accounting rules and actuarial methods and assumptions.
About the Author
Dale H. Yamamoto
Mr. Yamamoto is a principal with Hewitt Associates in Lincolnshire, Illinois. Prior to joining Hewitt in 1991, Dale had 16 years of professional actuarial experience, emphasizing all phases of actuarial services and employee benefits. Nine of the 16 years were with another major consulting firm where he last served as the national group actuarial resource for the company. Dale has also held positions as the corporate actuary for a Fortune 50 company and as a group actuary for two major insurance companies.
He chaired the 2000 Technical Review Panel appointed by the Medicare Board of Trustees to review the financial methods and assumptions of the Medicare program. Dale has testified before Congress on the topic of healthcare and Medicare reform. He has served on the Board of Governors of the Society of Actuaries and the Board of Directors of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries.
Dale 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 a Member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He holds a B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Nebraska.