Benjamin Buttin
FSA, MAAA
Consulting Actuary
Chicago, IL, US
Benjamin Buttin is a member of the Buffalo Grove Life Practice at Milliman.
Experience
Benjamin has extensive experience with a broad range of life insurance and annuity products. He has particular expertise with fixed-indexed annuities, RILAs, and indexed universal life products. His experience includes product pricing, capital assessment, and US, STAT, and GAAP financial reporting. Benjamin has worked for several of the largest Bermuda-based life and annuity reinsurers and has expertise in Bermuda statutory and capital requirements, including the standard and scenario-based approaches for calculating the best estimate liabilities.
Education
- BS, Mathematics, University of Washington
Publications
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Article
The impact of rising interest rates for life insurers
27 April 2023 - by Alex Bryant, Benjamin Buttin, Aatman Dattani, Josh Dobiac, Ouling Lu, Timothy Paris, Russell Ward
In a highly volatile market, life insurers are presented with both immense opportunity and challenges as they take on inflation and rising interest rates.
Article
Cloud computing and machine learning uses in the actuarial profession
05 April 2021 - by Van Beach, Jonathan B. Glowacki, Makho Mashoba, Benjamin Buttin, Alexandre Boumezoued, Joe Long, Zohair Motiwalla, Josh Dobiac, Antoine Ly, David South
A comprehensive look at uses of cloud computing and machine learning in the actuarial profession.
Article
The Withdrawal Delay Cohort under VM-21/AG-43: The case for random sampling
25 March 2019 - by Benjamin Buttin, Matthias Kullowatz, Zi Xiang Low, Zohair Motiwalla
The VM-21 Standard Projection is essentially a complete overhaul of the existing Actuarial Guideline 43 Standard Scenario framework.