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Ryan Cook

FSA, EA, CERA, MAAA
Consulting Actuary
Boise, ID, US

Ryan Cook is the lead and co-lead actuarial consultant for over a dozen clients at Milliman, including single-employer corporate pension and OPEB plans and public pension and OPEB plans.

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Experience

Client Projects

  • Funding valuations (PPA, PBGC, VEBA, and ADC)
  • Accounting valuations (ASC 715/960 and GASB 67/68/73/74/75)
  • Government filings (Forms 5500, PBGC Forms 10, and PBGC premium filings)
  • Experience studies
  • Deterministic and stochastic projections
  • Plan change/design studies
  • Plan de-risking studies
  • Plan terminations
  • Benefit calculations

Other Work

  • Serve as co-lead actuary in the development of Milliman's online projection tool
  • Develop and manage various firmwide Excel-based tools
  • Serve as ProVal expert within Milliman
  • Conduct firmwide training sessions
Publications

Read their latest work

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Milliman Pension Buyout Index November 2024

21 November 2024 - by Jake Pringle, Ryan Cook
Estimated competitive retiree buyout cost, as a percentage of accounting liability, decreased by 50 bps from 101.7% to 101.2% during October.
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Milliman Pension Buyout Index October 2024

21 October 2024 - by Jake Pringle, Ryan Cook
Estimated competitive retiree buyout cost, as a percentage of accounting liability, increased by 90 bps from 100.8% to 101.7% during September.
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Milliman Pension Buyout Index September 2024

13 September 2024 - by Jake Pringle, Ryan Cook
Estimated competitive retiree buyout cost, as a percentage of accounting liability, decreased by 170 bps from 102.5% to 100.8% during August.
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Milliman Pension Buyout Index August 2024

20 August 2024 - by Jake Pringle, Ryan Cook
Estimated competitive retiree buyout cost, as a percentage of accounting liability, increased by 220 bps from 100.3% to 102.5% during July.
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Milliman Pension Buyout Index July 2024

19 July 2024 - by Jake Pringle, Ryan Cook
Estimated competitive retiree buyout cost, as a percentage of accounting liability, decreased by 40 bps from 100.7% to 100.3% during June.
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Milliman Pension Buyout Index June 2024

18 June 2024 - by Jake Pringle, Ryan Cook
Estimated competitive retiree buyout cost, as a percentage of accounting liability, decreased by 20 bps from 100.9% to 100.7% during May.
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Milliman Pension Buyout Index May 2024

22 May 2024 - by Ryan Cook, Jake Pringle
Estimated competitive retiree buyout cost, as a percentage of accounting liability, increased by 60 bps from 100.3% to 100.9% during April.
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Milliman Pension Buyout Index April 2024

26 April 2024 - by Ryan Cook, Jake Pringle
Estimated competitive retiree buyout cost, as a percentage of accounting liability, decreased by 180 bps from 102.1% to 100.3% during March.
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Milliman Pension Buyout Index March 2024

15 March 2024 - by Ryan Cook, Jake Pringle
Estimated competitive retiree buyout cost, as a percentage of accounting liability, increased by 30 bps from 101.8% to 102.1% during February
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Are corporate pension plans making a comeback?

11 March 2024 - by Zorast Wadia, Ryan Cook, Lee Townsend
Milliman pension actuaries discuss why IBM and other companies are restoring defined benefit retirement programs.