Mr. Sholom Feldblum, FCAS, FSA, CPCU, is a Vice President with the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company in Boston, Massachusetts. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1978 and spent the next two years as a visiting fellow at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
From 1997-1999, Mr Feldblum served as a member of the CAS Board of Directors, and he is presently a member of the SOA Education Committee for the investments and finance sections of Exam 8.
In 1988-89, while working at the Allstate Research and Planning Center in California, Mr. Feldblum served as President of the Casualty Actuaries of the Bay Area (CABA), as Vice President of Research of the Northern California Chapter of the Society of CPCU, and as editor of the CABA newsletter. In 1989, he served on the CAS Education and Testing Methods Task Force, and in 1990-92, he served on the industry advisory committee to the NAIC Casualty Actuarial Task Force. In addition, he has been a member of the CAS Syllabus Committee, (1988-1998), the American Academy of Actuaries task force on risk-based capital (1992-1997), the CAS Committee on Valuation and Financial Analysis (1992-94), the CAS Committee on Fundamental Principles (1993-94), and the CAS Committee on Review of Papers (1993-95), and he was the associate editor of the Actuarial Review (1994-95).
Mr Feldblum is the author of over 100 monographs, papers, reviews, discussions, and study aids on ratemaking procedures, reserving techniques, statutory accounting, insurance economics, company valuation, government regulation, and corporate finance, which have appeared in Best's Review, the CPCU Journal, the Proceedings of the CAS, the Journal of Reinsurance, the Actuarial Digest, the CAS Forum, the Journal of Insurance Regulation, the North American Actuarial Journal, and the CAS Discussion Paper Program. He was the recipient of the 1993 Michelbacher Prize for his paper on "Professional Ethics and the Actuary," the 1996 DFA Prize Paper award for his paper on "The Financial Modeling of Property-Casualty Insurance Companies," and the 1997 Dorweiler Prize for his paper on "Automobile Insurance Premiums: An Asset Share Pricing Approach for Property Casualty Insurance." He received the year 2000 Brian Hey prize from the Institute of Actuaries (UK) for his paper on "Underwriting Cycles and Business Strategies."
During the past seven years, Mr. Feldblum has taught over three thousand actuarial candidates in seminars on insurance accounting, loss reserving, actuarial ratemaking, financial pricing, insurance law and regulation, company valuation, reinsurance, economics, financial engineering, and corporate finance. In addition, he has served as a CPCU instructor at Northeastern University, and he is a frequent speaker at actuarial conventions and insurance industry meetings.