Todd Tauzer

Mr. Tauzer is a Senior Vice President and Actuary in Segal’s San Francisco Office. He has 15 years of public plan experience, specializing in public pension funding, risk management, and plan sustainability for public plans across the nation. Mr. Tauzer focuses on major city, county and state retirement systems in the Western United States. He is a member of Segal’s Public Sector Leadership Group and is Segal’s National Public Sector Retirement Practice Leader, working to lead and coordinate Segal’s public retirement work across the United States.

Mr. Tauzer came to Segal as Director of Municipal Pensions from S&P Global Ratings, where he helped develop a detailed framework to evaluate the sustainability and security of public pension and OPEB plans across the country. He expanded S&P Global Ratings’ communication and outreach to key stakeholders of public sector plans, including elected officials, legislative committees and state and local government finance teams, and trained over 100 public finance analysts in understanding key pension mechanics and risks.

Prior to S&P Mr. Tauzer was a senior pension actuary for CalPERS. There he was heavily involved in the Enterprise Risk Management and Asset Liability Management space, working in tangent with the Financial and Investment Offices to model and evaluate risks and develop industry leading practices to achieve long term system sustainability and risk mitigation. He led in the development of a system risk-mitigation policy that earned the 2016 Award for Excellence in Government Finance from the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA). He also conducted analysis on California legislative pension bills and was the signing actuary for over 350 annual public pension valuations.

Mr. Tauzer is an active speaker and author on public pension plans. He has been a frequent speaker at public plan conferences, credit forums, investor roundtables and public finance industry events, including those sponsored by the Brookings Institute, the California Society of Municipal Analysts, the National Federation of Municipal Analysts, the Society of Municipal Analysts, the National Conference of State Legislators, the National Association of State Retirement Administrators, the National Council on Teacher’s Retirement, the National Conference of Public Employee Retirement Systems and the GFOA. He recently co-authored “Examining the Experiences of Public Pension Plans Since the Great Recession” for the National Institution on Retirement Security. In addition to serving as S&P’s spokesperson on the credit impacts of current pension trends, risk factors and regional challenges, he wrote numerous national publications and recorded a regular podcast called “Todd Talks,” and has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Economist, Pensions & Investments, Investments & Pensions Europe, Chief Investment Officer, and the Bond Buyer, among others. He is also a reoccurring speaker at actuarial conferences and webinars.

Mr. Tauzer is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries with a specialty in Enterprise Risk Management, a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst, a Fellow of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries (CCA), and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries. He serves on the CCA’s Public Plan’s Steering Committee, as the co-vice chair of the Academy’s Retirement Practice Council, and was immediate-past Chair of both the Academy’s Public Plans Committee and the Society of Actuaries’ Retirement Section Council. He is also a current member of the Committee on Retirement and Benefits Administration for the Government Finance Officers’ Association (GFOA CORBA).

In 2022 Mr. Tauzer was recognized by the CCA as the national Most Valuable Volunteer, in recognition of his volunteer contributions to the CCA and the actuarial consulting profession during the past 12 to 24 months. He also received the inaugural 2022 Rising Actuary Award from the Academy, recognizing him as a young leader who is helping lead the profession into the future.

Mr. Tauzer is active promoting education, transparency, and best practices for pensions within California, serving on both the Board of the California Society of Municipal Analysts and the University of the Pacific’s Advisory Board for their Actuarial Science program. Finally, he is engaged in State leadership, serving on both the California Actuarial Advisory Panel as the Assembly Speaker’s representative and as a member of the California State Auditor’s High Risk Advisory Team for Local Governments.

Mr. Tauzer was a Regents Scholar at the University of California, Davis, where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts in Economics, and his minor in Chinese. A portion of his undergraduate work was completed at Beijing Normal University (北师大) in China’s capital.