Melville Jessup Weaver

About Us

Melville Jessup Weaver is a firm of consulting actuaries with offices in Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand.   The firm provides actuarial consulting advice, education and software solutions in the areas of insurance, superannuation, KiwiSaver, asset management, financial analysis and risk management.

Melville Jessup Weaver is the New Zealand Alliance Partner of Towers Watson. Towers Watson is a leading global professional services company that helps organisations improve performance through effective people, risk and financial management.

The company offers solutions in the areas of employee benefits, talent management, rewards, and risk and capital management. Towers Watson has 14,000 associates around the world and is located on the web at www.towerswatson.com

This site provides information about our firm, our services and our people, as well as copies of recent publications and references to topical matters.

  • Bernard Reid

    Bernard Reid is an actuary with extensive experience in all aspects of superannuation and investment consulting.   He has advised many New Zealand superannuation schemes in areas such as benefit design, actuarial issues, investment strategy, IAS19 and FASB accounting.

    Bernard was a member of the Government-appointed Workplace Savings Working Group whose report led to the development of KiwiSaver.

    Prior to joining Melville Jessup Weaver, Bernard was at Watson Wyatt/ Mercer for 14 years, where he was the national practice leader of retirement consulting.

    bernard.reid@mjw.co.nz
    09 300 7163

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  • Craig Lough

    Craig Lough is an actuary specialising in the field of general insurance. He began his career at Melville Jessup Weaver before working in Australia and then the UK. During his time away he worked for a large London consulting office as well as multinational insurance companies both in Australia and the UK.

    Craig's broad array of experience includes valuation, basis setting, auditing, process improvement, and exposure to IFRS and USGAAP.

    craig.lough@mjw.co.nz
    09 300 7151

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  • Ian Midgley

    Ian Midgley is an actuary with extensive experience in all aspects of superannuation, having originally worked for Bacon and Woodrow, a leading firm of actuaries in the UK.

    Ian has over 25 years experience in all aspects of superannuation consulting, including actuarial valuations, scheme design, member communications and superannuation legislation.   He also has extensive experience in investment consulting to trustees of superannuation schemes, including the establishment of investment objectives, investment strategy, investment manager structure advice and appointment and monitoring of investment performance.

    ian.midgley@mjw.co.nz
    04 815 8888

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  • Janet Lockett

    Janet Lockett is an actuary specialising in general insurance and health insurance. Her expertise covers rate-making, product design, claims analyses and reserving. She advises that effective management reporting systems are required to enable adequate monitoring of each line of business. She also advises on solvency and aspects of risk management, including reinsurance and the use of catastrophe models.

    Janet enjoys carrying out unusual actuarial projects, including work for smaller clients.

    janet.lockett@mjw.co.nz
    04 815 8887

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  • Jeremy Holmes

    Jeremy Holmes is an actuary specialising in general insurance.   His experience includes a wide variety of work for our New Zealand clients as well as some time working for a Lloyd’s insurer in London.

    Jeremy is interested in pricing and profitability analyses for general insurers or anyone interested in getting a better understanding of their products’ performance.   He also undertakes insurance liability valuations, reviews and ad-hoc projects.

    jeremy.holmes@mjw.co.nz
    09 300 7318

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  • John Melville

    John Melville is an actuary with technical expertise in all aspects of the operations of superannuation schemes. He has extensive experience of life office financial operations, including solvency and embedded value calculations.

    John also works on health insurance and more general actuarial projects. He has had direct involvement in software development for administration and valuation of superannuation schemes and life companies.

    John has several times served terms as the New Zealand Government Actuary.

    john.melville@mjw.co.nz
    04 499 0277

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  • Linda Caradus

    Linda Caradus is an actuary with technical expertise in life insurance and superannuation. Her experience includes general management responsibilities within life offices. She assists life offices in all aspects of their long-term business, including analysis and monitoring of experience, Margin on Services and Embedded Value reporting, product design and premium rating.

    Linda also advises trustees and employers on the operation of superannuation schemes.

    linda.caradus@mjw.co.nz
    04 815 8889

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  • Mark Weaver

    Mark Weaver is an actuary who specialises in superannuation, asset consulting and workers compensation. He has provided advice on superannuation schemes to a large number of corporate clients and trustees and is a past chairman of the Association of Superannuation Funds of New Zealand.

    His interest in asset consulting goes back to the time when he completed a degree in econometrics. He has been heavily involved in the workers compensation market, including working with corporates on assessing ACC Partnership Programme options.

    Mark is a past-President of the New Zealand Society of Actuaries.

    mark.weaver@mjw.co.nz
    09 300 7156

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  • Neil Christie

    Neil Christie is an actuary specialising in the field of general insurance.  

    He has worked in reinsurance and management roles and also a product and systems development role for a London-based company arranging insurances at Lloyd's.

    His experience includes insurance liability valuations, profitability and pricing investigations, claims and expense analysis across a wide range of business classes and businesses.

    neil.christie@mjw.co.nz
    09 300 7571

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