Consultants and Actuaries

Bonnie Wurst is a Senior Consultant and Team Leader in GRS’ Minneapolis, Minnesota office.  She has more than 30 years of actuarial and consulting experience.  Bonnie has served public sector clients in Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, and Oregon.

Bonnie consults to statewide, large municipal, and church-sponsored retirement systems.  Her actuarial experience covers pension and OPEB actuarial valuation services, funding projections, plan design studies, experience studies, plan merger and implementation consulting and benefit administration services.

Bonnie also has experience managing actuarial teams. As a manager of a GRS pension team, Bonnie oversees project plans, budgets, and interaction between GRS and clients.

Professional Designations

• Associate, Society of Actuaries
• Enrolled Actuary
• Fellow, Conference of Consulting Actuaries
• Member, American Academy of Actuaries

Presentations

Bonnie frequently provides client and employee education sessions, and has served as a speaker for professional association conferences.  Bonnie’s presentations have covered topics such as current public sector trends in pension benefit design and funding, overview of actuarial valuations, and client-specific retirement program overviews. Bonnie currently serves as Vice Chair of the Program Committee for the CCA Enrolled Actuaries Conference.

Examples of recent speaking experience:

• 2021 NCTR Panel “Asset Allocation and the Investment Return Assumption”
• 2021 CCA Enrolled Actuaries Conference Session “Lessons Learned: Closed Public Pension Plans”
• 2019 Enrolled Actuaries Meeting Session “ASOP 51: Practical Approaches”
• 2015 NACPA Convocation Session “Best Practices for Priest Retirement Programs”
• 2014 Conference of Consulting Actuaries Webcast “Actuarial Assumptions”

Education

Bachelors, Mathematics and Speech Communication, Summa Cum Laude Graduate, Mankato State University, Mankato, Minnesota.