INDEPENDENT FINANCIAL ADVISORY COMPANY

At Principles Financial Consulting we provide our services to you through employees who are registered as representatives of Principles in terms of the FAIS Act. This is where they are involved in providing any recommendation, guidance or proposal of a financial nature in respect of the purchase of any financial product such as an investment and life product.

RIANA SLABBER

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Riana is the force behind the company’s rapid growth and is the architect of its innovative strategy. Riana is an experienced financial services professional who has excellent organizational and customer service skills.


Riana Slabber has over 20 years experience assisting clients in packaging their employee benefits. Her expertise covers various fields in the industry from fund consulting, medical schemes and wealth management.

Riana has been involved in several projects to assist members to retire financial independent, they include;

  • Induction programs for members of both medical schemes and retirement funds
  • On-going advice to members exiting the employer
  • Tailor-made wellness initiatives
  • Assisting members to achieve higher statuses on various incentive plans
  • Organising wellness interventions etc

Core Skills

  • Specialised calculation knowledge
  • Keen analytical, project management, and problem solving skills
  • Good business sense. Finance, accounting, economics
  • Solid communication skills (oral and written)
  • Strong computer skills

Personal Values

  • Objective and Independent
  • Integrity
  • Integrity, kindness, honest
  • Empowering trustees, union officials and HR to create harmony in managing retirement funds
  • Change lives for the better (thus always challenging current methodologies of various communication strategies because they are not effective)

HERME SLABBER

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

  • Academic Qualifications

    1991 – 1994 Rand Afrikaans University


    B Com (Economics) and Higher Diploma in Education

  • Work Experience

    2005 – Date – Principles Financial Consultants

    • Key Individual and Information Officer
    • Retirement and risk benefits consultant
    • Medical scheme consultant
    • Trustee training on Retirement Fund Trustees
    • Facilitating Retirement Counselling

    2003 – 2005 - Momentum Life (Divisional Head Distribution)

    • Main focus is service delivery
    • Marketing of employee benefits to intermediaries
    • Momentum Elite 2004/2005 to Ireland
    • Top employee benefits consultant for 2004/2005

    2001 – 2003 – Momentum - Head of Seminars and Training

    • Marketing of Trustee Training Courses to all Momentum clients
    • Marketing of Employee Benefits Seminars and Financial Courses to all Momentum clients

    1999 – 2001 - NMG Consultants and Actuaries - Trustee Trainer

    • Responsible for the training of the sales force on retirement, investment, life and medical products available in the market
    • Conducting Trustee Training Courses for retirement funds and medical schemes
    • Conducting Employee Benefits/Financial Courses to internal and external clients
    • Co presenting and organising training conferences symposiums
    • Marketing of Trustee Training Courses to all NMG clients

    1995 – 1996 - Educator

    • Teaching Economics, Business Economics and Accounting

  • Major Achievements

    Trustee Training and Employee Benefits Seminars where an average of 90% and above feedback rating was noted includes inter alia:


    Trustee Training for Retirement Funds: JTI, Enviroserv, DaimlerChrysler, Pick and Pay, The Chamber of Mines, First National Bank and First Link, The Johannesburg Municipality, BHP Billiton South Africa


    Employee Benefit Seminars: Momentum, Highveld Steel, DaimlerChrysler, Compaq


    Trustee Training for Medical Schemes: Anglo American, Anglo Gold, Pick and Pay, JCI, Polmed


    Other achievements include: 

    • Co presenting at the following symposiums: Butterworth’s Symposium – Proposed Regulation 28, IRFA Judge
    • Course content developer for FSCA’s Professional Trusteeship