Timothy J. Herman

Tim provides retirement consulting services to plan sponsors that range from small privately held companies to large publicly traded companies, public plans, multiemployer plans, and church plans.

He has served plan sponsors on a variety of subjects, including employee benefit plan design, experience studies, actuarial valuations, cost estimates, individual benefit calculations, merger and acquisition consulting, and plan governance issues. He has also performed stochastic projections of both assets and liabilities for several large clients. He has assisted several public employers with the analysis of the impact of their retiree medical plan under Government Account Standards Board (GASB) requirements.

He has served multiemployer funds dealing with the requirements of the Pension Protection Act (PPA), including making PPA funding projections and developing funding improvement and rehabilitation plans; of the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act (MPRA), including the design of benefit suspensions to satisfy MPRA's equitable factors criteria and goldilocks rule; and the American Rescue Plan Act, including advising Trustees on the process and submitting applications to PBGC and working with PBGC to approve the applications. Additional projects have included consulting on withdrawal liability issues, plan design studies, and assumption analyses.