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Ram Kelkar

Principal, Managing Director, Financial Risk Management, Capital Markets
Ram Kelkar is a principal and managing director, and heads up the Capital Markets and Trading Group of Milliman’s Financial Risk Management Practice (FRM). He manages the trading teams in Sydney, London, Amsterdam, and Chicago that trade cash securities and derivatives, including both exchange-traded and OTC derivatives, in equity, fixed income, FX, credit, and other markets on behalf of investment advisory clients, including insurance companies, funds, ETF issuers, and other financial institutions. Milliman FRM is a global leader in providing risk management services to the retirement savings industry. Milliman FRM provides investment advisory, hedging, and consulting services on approximately $176.1 billion in global assets (31 December 2021). Key focus areas include risk management and outsourced hedging of life insurance liabilities, including variable annuities (VAs), fixed indexed annuities (FIAs), and RILAs and Buffered/Defined Outcome strategies; sub-advisory services for managed volatility funds and Milliman’s Managed Risk and Risk Parity strategies; MARC5 (Multi-Asset Risk Control) Index for FIAs; and sub-advisory services for ETF issuers and for ETF Managed Portfolios.
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Sam Nandi

Consulting Actuary
Sam leads the actuarial team within Milliman's Financial Risk Management practice in Chicago. He has played a major role in the development of Milliman's MG-Hedge platform and its implementation for many leading life insurers and reinsurers, both within the United States and globally. His work encompasses market risk management for variable annuity guarantees and options embedded within index annuity products. He has served Milliman's clients in a number of different ways, including offering advisory services on best practices, delivering and implementing software and modeling tools for in-sourced programs, and managing hedge programs that have been outsourced to Milliman.

International Contacts

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Daisuke Seki

Senior Consultant
Daisuke Seki joined Milliman in November 2023. Since then, Daisuke has been actively advising clients on the following: M&As (multiple cross border M&As, cross border reinsurance transactions, including block deals and flow deals) EV and MCEV reviews ALM strategy reviews ESR and ICS advisories Assumption reviews, including economic and non-economic assumptions
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Wade Matterson

Practice Leader
Wade is a principal and leads Milliman’s Australian practice. He joined the firm in 2004 and is responsible for Milliman’s Australian operations. Wade also supports Milliman’s retirement and risk management initiatives across the Asia-Pacific region.
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Neil Dissanayake

Principal and Director of European Trading
Neil Dissanayake is a principal with Milliman, Director of European Trading for Milliman’s Financial Risk Management Practice, and has been with Milliman since 2006.
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