Warren Luckner

David P. Hayes Memorial Chair in Actuarial Science
Director of Actuarial Science
Finance
Contact Information

CBA210
P.O. Box 880490
Lincoln, NE 68588-0490
Phone: +1-402-472-1981
Fax: +1-402-472-5140
wluckner2@unl.edu

Joined the college in August 2003.

Expertise
  • Retirement
  • Actuarial Science
  • Social Security
  • Insurance
Education
  • BA-Mathematics 1968 (Luther College, Decorah, IA)
  • MA-Mathematics 1970 (University of Maryland, College Park)
Research Interests
Social Insurance, Asset-liability Management
Teaching Interests
Financial Mathematics, 440/840; Actuarial Applications in Practice, 475/875; Problems labs to prepare for professional actuarial examinations
Published In
Transactions, Society of Actuaries Nebraska Annual Social Indicators Survey (NASIS) Actuarial Research Clearinghouse (ARCH) Proceedings, Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice North American Actuarial Journal
Refereed Publications
1. OASDI Earnings Test, Transactions Society of Actuaries, Volume XXXIV (1982), 79 91 2. Expectancy Discrepancy, (with Professor Walter Lowrie, and Murray Projector) Proceedings of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice, Volume XXXIII (1983 84), 577 604 3. Individual Vs. Aggregate Approach to Funding Benefits – An Illustration, Transactions Society of Actuaries, Volume XXXVIII (1986), 145 162 4. An Application of Optimization to Life Insurance Planning, (with Professors Walter Lowrie, Jerald Dauer, and Mohamed Osman), Proceedings of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice, Volume XXXVI (1986 87), 770 795 5. Principles of Actuarial Science (with Society of Actuaries Committee on Actuarial Principles), Transactions Society of Actuaries, Volume XXXXIV (1993), 565 591 6. Chapter 19, Society of Actuaries Study of Credit Risk Event Loss Experience: Private Bonds and Commercial Mortgages, The Strategic Dynamics of the Insurance Industry: Asset/Liability Management Issues (Salomon Center, New York University, 1996, Irwin Professional Publishing), 317-345 7. Principles Regarding Provisions for Life Risks (with Society of Actuaries Committee on Actuarial Principles), Transactions Society of Actuaries, Volume XLVII (1995), 775-793 8. Summary of Results of Survey of Seminar Attendees (with Marjorie Rosenberg), North American Actuarial Journal (issue devoted to SOA Seminar “Impact of Mortality Improvement on Social Security: Canada, Mexico, and the United States”), Volume 2, Number 4 (October 1998), 64-82
Awards
1. Bereuter Distinguished Teaching Award; Spring, 1982 2. Analysis of Premiums, second place paper in Society of Actuaries contest for applications of new text, Actuarial Mathematics; Spring, 1985 (published in ARCH 1987.1 51 62) 3. UNL Senior Honorary, Society of Innocents; Spring, 1985 4. Outstanding Volunteer Recognition Award, Society of Actuaries Finance Practice Area, 2002 5. Luther College Alumni Distinguished Service Award, October, 2003 6. Alpha Tau Chapter of Beta Theta Pi, Award for Excellence in Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April, 2004 7. Named first occupant of David P. Hayes Memorial Chair in Actuarial Science, April, 2005; renewed 2010 8. UNL Parents Association Certificate of Recognition for Contributions to Students: January 2005, January 2006, January 2007, January 2008, January 2009, January 2010, January 2011 9. UNL College of Business Administration 2006-2007 Excellence in Teaching Award for non-tenure track faculty 10. UNL Kappa Alpha Theta, Nominated as an Outstanding Professor at the University of Nebraska, May, 2008 11. UNL College of Business Administration 2008-2009 Excellence in Teaching Award for non-tenure track faculty 12. UNL 2010 Student Foundation Builders Award for Outstanding Academic Advising. 13. CBA Student Advisory Board nomination as exceptional professor - November 2010 14. UNL College of Business Administration 2010-2011, Distinguished Teaching Award for non-tenure track faculty
Additional Information
Professional designations: FSA, 1976; CFA, 1995