SMART Business Advisory and Consulting Announces Expansion of its Life Actuarial...

SMART Business Advisory and Consulting Announces Expansion of its Life
Actuarial Practice

DEVON, Pa., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- SMART Business Advisory and
Consulting, LLC, an independent leading global provider of financial advisory
and business consulting services, today announced the expansion of its life
actuarial services practice with the addition of three industry leading
actuaries -- Christian DesRochers, FSA, Michael LeBoeuf, FSA and Brian King,
FSA. They will be based out of SMART's Hartford office. DesRochers and King
are among the co-authors of "Life Insurance and Modified Endowments," the
Society of Actuaries' textbook on policyholder tax issues. Prior to joining
SMART, DesRochers, LeBoeuf and King were with AON Consulting.
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"The addition of these three very talented life actuaries to our existing
actuarial practice will significantly expand the breadth and depth of our
actuarial service offering. Principles based reserving, US GAAP and
International Financial Reporting Standards, federal income tax reserves and
product tax compliance, enterprise risk management and economic capital are
many of the challenges facing the insurance industry which require actuarial
involvement," said Ed Robbins, FSA, leader of SMART's life actuarial services
practice.
"Over the past three years, SMART has added significantly to our insurance
tax and tax actuarial resources with the additions of Greg Stephenson and Ed
Robbins. With today's announcement, we are able to further expand our depth
of resources dealing with insurance tax reserves and product compliance
matters. Moreover, our broad insurance industry team gives us the ability to
leverage these actuarial capabilities across a variety of our service
offerings to the insurance industry," said J. Howard Stecker, SMART Senior
Vice President.
SMART's Insurance Industry practice is comprised of former insurance
executives, auditors and advisors, actuaries, regulators and receivers.
Services include financial advisory, actuarial, asbestos and environmental
litigation, Statutory financial statement audit, insurance company and product
taxation, enterprise risk management, claims and underwriting audits and
business consulting.
ABOUT SMART
SMART Business Advisory and Consulting, LLC (http://www.smartgrp.com) is a
premier, full-service independent provider of financial advisory and business
consulting services, serving clients throughout the US and globally. SMART
offers innovative solutions to public and private companies in the areas of
financial advisory and business consulting, technology, business process,
accounting, compensation and benefits, and tax. Through an alternative
practice structure, SMART and Associates, LLP offers a full range of attest
services.
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David Fridling, +1-215-588-9933, David.fridling@comcast.net, for SMART
Business Advisory and Consulting, LLC