Todd Tauzer

Todd Tauzer is Vice President and National Public Sector Retirement Practice Leader for Segal, specializing in public pension funding, risk management, and plan sustainability for public plans across the nation. He focuses on major city, county, and state retirement systems in the Western United States. He is also a member of Segal’s Public Sector Leadership Group. Todd 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, Todd was a senior pension actuary for CalPERS, where 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.

Todd is an active speaker and author on public pension plans. 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. Todd 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 Chair of the Academy’s Public Plans Committee, and as a member of its Pension Practice Council, and as Chair of the Society of Actuaries’ Retirement Section Council.