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Consultants and Actuaries

James Rizzo, ASA, FCA, MAAA

James Rizzo is a Senior Consultant in GRS’ Fort Lauderdale, Florida office.  He has more than 35 years of public sector actuarial and consulting experience. Jim provides actuarial and consulting services to retirements systems and OPEB plans.  He has served public sector clients in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

Jim is a subject matter expert in all aspects of pension and retiree health plan design and operations, including investments, administration, systems, communications, regulatory compliance, actuarial, and plan design.  His focus is preparing, supervising, and presenting actuarial valuations, calculating projections, and conducting plan redesign studies. Jim has extensive experience analyzing the actuarial impact of investment decisions and helping clients with pension risk management. 

Professional Designations
  • Associate, Society of Actuaries
  • Fellow, Conference of Consulting Actuaries
  • Member, American Academy of Actuaries
Professional Affiliations
  • Actuarial: American Academy of Actuaries’ Pension Accounting Committee, Public Plans Subcommittee  and Retiree Health Committee; Conference of Consulting Actuaries’ Public Plans Community Steering Committee; Actuarial Standards Board, Retiree Group Benefits Subcommittee on Actuarial Standards of Practice (ASOPs)
  • Accounting: Governmental Accounting Standards Board’s task forces on the Standards and Implementation Guides for OPEB and Advisory Education to Board and Staff on Pension Standards.
Presentations and Publications

Jim has been recruited to speak at conferences for the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA), Florida Government Finance Officers Association (FGFOA), Conference of Consulting Actuaries (CCA), American Academy of Actuaries (AAA) and other organizations. He has authored articles for Contingencies, Government Finance Review and other publications and co-authored the paper, “Revisiting Pension Actuarial Science – A Five-Part Series”, published by the Society of Actuaries.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics (with honors), University of South Florida

Actuarial Course Studies, Georgia State University