Experience
An Eckler Principal, Bryan joined the pension and benefits team in 2011, following five years with another major consulting firm. Bryan leads the Financial Modelling and Risk Management practice. His expertise includes stochastic modelling for pension plans (defined benefit and defined contribution), health and welfare trusts, as well as other institutional investors. Bryan also leads Eckler’s valuation systems committee and Eckler’s capital market assumption committee.
Prior to focusing on the financial modelling practice, Bryan worked as a defined benefit pension consultant. In this role, he consulted on both single-employer and multi-employer pension plans, with extensive work on funding, solvency, and accounting valuations, plan design, and administration.
Bryan graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Mathematics, Actuarial Science. He is a Fellow of both the Society of Actuaries and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, and a member of the Society of Actuaries examination committee. Bryan was also a member of Actuarial Standards Board designated group that is reviewing the pension Standards of Practice with respect to modelling and meaningful stress testing.
Areas of Expertise
- Financial modelling
- Risk management
- De-risking / liability-driven investment strategies
- Stochastic modelling
- Capital market assumptions
- Asset liability modelling
- Real-time modelling
- Defined benefit pension plan design, valuation, administration and financial reporting
- Multi-employer pension plans (MEPPs)
- Supplemental executive retirement plans (SERPs)
- Target benefit plans
Professional Qualifications
Professional Qualifications
- Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (FCIA)
- Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA)
- Honours, Bachelor of Science, Specialist in Actuarial Science – University of Toronto
Professional Activities
- Executive member of a Society of Actuaries examination committee