Members

Chanan Weiss BSc, FFA, FASSA

Chanan is the Managing Director of ARCH Actuarial Consulting.

He is an Actuary and an Approved Retirement Fund Valuator. He spent 11 years in the life insurance industry with Norwich Life and Ginsburg, Malan & Carsons (Actuaries & Consultants), where he gained experience in group risk benefits, retirement funding and post-employment health care valuations.

Since establishing ARCH in 1998, he has gained further actuarial consulting experience in health care financing and 3rd party claims.

Chanan is the appointed valuator to a number of pension funds, he consults to many employers regarding their IAS19 liabilities (e.g. post-employment medical aid subsidies) and to medical schemes with regards to their financial soundness.....Go to contacts.

Nilen Kambaran BSc (Hons), AIA, AASSA

Nilen is an actuary with nine years of employee benefit experience. He has worked at Norwich Life, Fifth Quadrant (Actuaries & Consultants) and PSI Actuarial Solutions. He has been involved in pension and health care valuations, design consulting and scheme conversions.

Together with Chanan, Nilen manages ARCH’s retirement fund portfolio and is actively involved in consulting to medical aid schemes.....Go to contacts.

Riyadh Omardien BBusSc (Act. Sci - Hons)

Riyadh was at Southern Life for four years where he formed part of the Corporate Actuarial division. He performed valuations, assisted in the fund management of a large annuity portfolio and was responsible for the pricing system that maintained a broad portfolio of unit-linked policies. A further two years were spent at PSI Actuarial Solutions providing pension valuation services.

At ARCH, Riyadh manages the 3rd party department, and he is actively involved with IAS19 and other valuations (such as valuations of share option trusts and businesses). He recently successfully completed all three of the examinations required for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification.....Go to contacts.