Eckler’s Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) Report – 2026
Eckler’s Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) report provides insights about the Canadian PRT market to help educate and support informed decisions about derisking.
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Experience
A Principal and consulting actuary at Eckler’s pension practice in Vancouver, Murray has almost 20 years of experience advising pension plans in Canada and the UK.
Murray has expertise in long-term strategy, risk management, asset-liability modelling, liability driven investing, funding and benefit policies, demographic risk modelling and accounting for employee benefits. His focus is on making sure that these complicated issues can be turned into understandable and actionable advice.
Murray is a Fellow of both the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in the United Kingdom.
Areas of Expertise
- Long-term strategy for pension plans
- Risk management
- Funding and benefit policies
- Target benefit plans
- Longevity analysis
- Demographic risk
- Asset-liability modelling
- Liability driven investment
- Funding strategy
- Accounting for employee benefits
- Plan de-risking
- De-risking glidepaths
- Single employer-defined benefit plans
- Contingent indexation
- Yield curve construction
Professional Qualifications
Professional Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Statistics – Edinburgh University
- Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (FCIA)
- Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (FFA)