Arthur has worked with a variety of private, multiemployer, and public employers consulting on both retirement and retiree medical plans. His clients include Fortune 500 companies, multi-state and statewide Taft-Hartley trusts, and county and city employee retirement and retiree medical plans.
Arthur assists clients on a wide range of issues including plan design, mergers & acquisitions, actuarial valuations, benefit and cost projections, assumption studies, financial reporting (FASB, GASB, and CAS), and pension administration.
Publications and Presentations
Arthur speaks regularly at regional and national conferences. His recent presentations include:
Risks and De-Risking Strategies
Retirement Plan Designs from a Plan Sponsor’s Perspective
Managing Retirement Risk
Employee Demographics: What you don’t know may cost you
His recent publications include:
Is it finally time to improve benefits?
Public pension plan funding policy: Effectiveness of amortization methods under deterministic projections
What can plan sponsors do with plummeting interest rates?
07 November 2023 - by Daniel Wade, Arthur Rains-McNally, Jessica Gardner
In public pension plan funding, amortization methods with short rolling periods better meet the intent of revised Actuarial Standard of Practice No. 4 (ASOP 4).
18 June 2021 - by Claire Armstrong-Hann, Mark C. Olleman, Arthur Rains-McNally
To answer this question, we discuss how trustees should first address the big picture and examine a plan’s balance between benefits, contributions, and risks.
