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Consultants and Actuaries

Janie Shaw, ASA, EA, MAAA

Janie Shaw is a Consultant in the GRS Dallas, Texas office. She has more than 10 years of public sector pension consulting experience. Janie has experience working with statewide and municipal retirement systems in multiple states including Kentucky, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.

Janie’s actuarial consulting experience includes annual valuation services for both pension and OPEB plans. Her experience has focused on plan sustainability through funding policy and benefit plan design. She has worked with her clients to find long-term solutions for all Stakeholders that build a more sustainable future for the retirement system. She has also worked with her clients to implement contribution rate stabilization policies that provide more predictable pension costs that work within the Stakeholders’ budgets but also provide sound funding for the retirement system.

She also has significant experience with analyzing and revising demographic and economic assumptions through actuarial experience studies and actuarial audits. Janie’s compliance work and experience covers GASB reporting requirements as they apply to pension and OPEB plans, 415(b) calculations and non-discrimination testing for DB and DC plans.

Professional Designations
  • Associate, Society of Actuaries
  • Enrolled Actuary
  • Member, American Academy of Actuaries
Education

Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin