Richard Goldfarb is a Senior Vice President with Aon Benfield where he is responsible for advising insurance company clients on reinsurance program design and execution of transactions to transfer risk to the traditional reinsurance market as well as to various capital markets investors (in the form of catastrophe bonds, sidecar vehicles, industry loss warranties and collateralized reinsurance). In this role, Richard leads the analytical teams for Aon Benfield's large property accounts and works closely with Aon Benfield Securities on transactions involving new company formations and insurance mergers and acquisitions.
Richard has a broad range of experience in financial risk management, capital management and reinsurance and has previously worked as a consulting actuary, a finite risk reinsurance underwriter and as a structured finance specialist for a derivatives trading firm.
Richard is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society, received his MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago and is a CFA charterholder.
He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the CAS and has previously been a member of the CAS Valuation, Finance and Investment Committee, the CAS Enterprise Risk Management Committee, the SOA Task Force on ERM Credentials, and a consultant to the CAS Exam 8 Syllabus Committee. He is the author of two readings on the CAS Exam 8 syllabus and has been a frequent presenter at industry conferences on topics including enterprise risk management, economic capital modeling and reinsurance pricing.
Since 1993, Richard has taught actuarial exam seminars and written study manuals for several CAS and SOA actuarial exams, including CAS Exam 5B (Finance), CAS Exam 8 (Investments), SOA Course 8V (Investments), SOA Financial Economic Theory Exam and SOA Advanced Portfolio Management Exam.
Contact: Richard.Goldfarb@GoldfarbSeminars.com