Steve A. Lemanski - Principal, Consulting Actuary
 FSA, FCA, MAAA, EA

Professional designations

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

Current responsibility

Steve Lemanski rejoined Milliman in 2006. Prior to joining Milliman, Steve was a principal and consulting actuary with a regional actuarial consulting firm, and an actuarial consultant with Hewitt Associates.
 

Experience

Steve has over 20 years of experience in providing actuarial consulting services to diverse clients, including municipalities, multiemployer pension funds, and Fortune 500 companies. His areas of expertise include the valuation of defined benefit and other postretirement benefit plans, plan design, benefit certifications, experience studies, general administration of qualified plans, and consulting on compliance issues. He also consults on union negotiation issues for corporate and municipal clients.

Steve is the lead pension actuary for numerous municipalities throughout Connecticut and Rhode Island. He is currently the lead GASB 43/45 actuary for the towns of Glastonbury, Coventry, Groton, Weston, Charlestown, and the cities of New Britain, New London, Pittsfield, and Northampton.
 

Affiliations

  • Board Member, Connecticut Public Pension Forum
  • Vice-Chairperson, EA-1 Actuarial Examination Committee
  • Past Treasurer and Director of Continuing Education for Enrolled Actuaries, Actuaries’ Club of Hartford/Springfield
  • Past Meeting Editor, The Record (a publication of the Society of Actuaries)
  • Past Member, EA-2 (Segment B) Actuarial Examination Pre-Test Committee
 
Presentations and publications
  • January 2011 Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns: GASB 45 – An Actuarial Perspective
  • September 2010 Milliman Conference: Plan Termination Management
  • May 2008 Actuaries' Club of Hartford/Springfield: GASB 45 Strategies – Practical Approaches to Managing the Implications
  • September 2007 Milliman Conference: GASB 45 OPEB Disclosures
  • August 2006 Milliman Conference: GASB 43/45
  • June 2006 Ovation Benefits Seminar: GASB 43/45
  • June 2004 Actuaries' Club of Hartford/Springfield: The Pension Funding Equity Act of 2004 – a Short-Term Fix for a Long-Term Problem?
  • April 2004 Connecticut Government Finance Officers Association: GASB 43/45
  • February 2004 Connecticut Association of School Business Officials: GASB 43/45
  • September 2003 Actuaries' Clubs of Hartford/Springfield and Boston: The Pension Funding Crisis: What Have We Learned?
  • October 2001 Connecticut Public Pension Forum: A Summary of EGTRRA (Federal Tax Law) Changes for Public Sector Retirement Plans
 

Education

  • BA (summa cum laude), Applied Mathematics and Economics, Drew University
 
CONTACT INFORMATION
Steve  A.  Lemanski 

Office: Hartford, Conn.

Phone: +1 860.687.0143