Richard has a broad range of experience in financial risk management, capital management and reinsurance. He has spent most of his career in the reinsurance industry and has previously worked as a consulting actuary, a finite risk reinsurance underwriter and as a structured finance specialist for a derivatives trading firm.
He is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society, received his MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago, is a CFA charterholder and holds the FRM designation from the Global Association of Risk Professionals.
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 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