NMG Benefits

Benefit Benchmark Study Focus Group Event

About the speakers

Neal Bull – Senior Consultant, Benefits Benchmark Expert

With more than 12 years of experience in benefits consulting, Neal has worked on some of the largest pension and provident funds in South Africa and was a key person for the largest surplus apportionment exercise in South Africa to date with approximately 3, 6 million records. His experience includes actuarial valuations on pension and provident funds and other post-retirement benefits (post-retirement medical and long service awards). He is the lead consultant on the NMG Benefits Benchmark survey and has been linking up with Corporate SA to understand the link between HR, Benefits and Strategy. Neal completed his BSc Financial & Actuarial Mathematics degree in 2005 at the University of Pretoria and is currently working towards qualifying as an actuary through the Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA).

Linda Kleynscheldt – Principal Consultant

Linda is an employee benefits actuary with more than 20 years of experience covering actuarial consulting to multinationals, Pension fund consulting, IAS19 reporting as well as Risk Management and SAM (ORSA) reporting for Life Insurers.  Joining NMG in 2015 as a Principal Consultant, Linda is responsible for the actuarial employer consulting portfolio, providing support to employers on financial reporting of long term employee benefit plans and strategic advice on employee benefits.   She is a member of the Actuarial Society of South Africa’s (ASSA) Systems Forum, focusing on the role of actuaries in systems development and testing and acts as mentor for ASSA students.

Speakers from the industry:

Information and technology, Manufacturing, Financial services, Benefits consulting

 Names to be confirmed.