Brenna Gardino, FSA, MAAA, FLMI
Principal and Director of Consulting
Brenna has 20 years of experience in the life insurance industry including a wide range of topics. Her recent activities have included GAAP LDTI work, client management, managing a central model team as model steward, model conversion, and assumption governance. Brenna has frequently been involved in bridging the gap between technical and non-technical audiences. She is an active SOA volunteer.
Recent Experience
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Project Management - including the review and development of GAAP LDTI data, the development of a large scale traditional life with reinsurance GAAP LDTI model, and the conversion and consolidation of several actuarial projection models to a single central model used company-wide for multiple applications
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Actuarial Model Development and Stewardship – guided the implementation of pricing, valuation, and cash flow testing models
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Leader of Corporate Assumption Governance Committee
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PGAAP model implementation in ARCVAL
Areas of Expertise
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GAAP Long-Duration Targeted Improvements model and data development and implementation
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Model development, conversion, and implementation
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Annuity audit work on a Statutory, Tax and GAAP basis
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Product Administration, Development and Management for Universal Life, Traditional Life & Annuity Products (including Variable and Indexed)
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Cash-Flow Testing and Statutory Reserve Asset Adequacy Analysis
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VM-21 and C3P2 for Variable Annuities
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Product taxation
Education / Professional
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Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, 2011
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Member of the American Academy of Actuaries, 2008
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Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Statistics with an Actuarial Science Emphasis —University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2001
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Exam grader for the SOA
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Former council member of the SOA Modeling section
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Former council member and Chair of the SOA Taxation section
Personal Interests
Outside of work, Brenna enjoys spending time with her two fabulous children, running, yoga, and snorkeling.