Dany Desgagnés

Dany is a Principal of the firm, with close to 20 years of experience as a strategic pension actuary, investment management consultant and longevity risk management expert.

Since joining Eckler in 2002, Dany has gained extensive experience in designing sustainable pension plans and developing integrated funding, investment and benefits policies that meet the client’s objectives and constraints and the market’s best practices. He has also performed multiple actuarial assumption reviews and plan experience analyses. Throughout his career, Dany has focussed on the importance of education of plan trustees, but also of plan members. Together with the teams of administration specialists, he has developed and implemented client-tailored administrative solutions with a focus on plan participant experience and has developed communication plans that focus on enhancing the perceived value to members. Dany also does specialized work as a part of union negotiations, plan terminations and corporate mergers and spin-offs.

Dany’s work extends to asset consulting as well, where he is involved in the analysis and design of investment management structure, performance monitoring and manager searches for several pension funds. He has assisted clients in carefully executing thorough transition plans between managers and fiduciaries. Dany also has provided several training sessions to various audiences such as training and education to new Trustees. Dany has developed a specific expertise in longevity management. He has been involved in the development and implementation of Club Vita Canada, a longevity analytics service, and now serves Club Vita’s Quebec members.

Dany is actively involved with the research team by contributing to the technical review of Special Notice publications sent to our clients. He has also participated in the writing of the Consultation paper to provide comments to the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) on the solvency funding framework for defined benefit pension plans. Dany is a graduate of the Actuarial Science program at Laval University, and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and the Society of Actuaries. He works in both English and French.

• Annuity purchase
• Asset management structure
• Change management
• Defined benefit pension plan valuation
• Designated plans
• Experience review
• Governance
• Jointly governed plans
• Legislative research
• Longevity analytics
• Members communication
• Other post-employment benefits Valuation
• Peer review
• Pension plan accounting
• Performance monitoring
• Plan design
• Plan funding
• Risk management
• Supplement employee retirement programs
• Target benefit pension plans
• Total rewards
• Unionized environment

Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Sciences – Laval University
• Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (FCIA)
• Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA)