Investment Committee
Peter Verhaart
Chair & Chief Investment Officer (CIO)
Peter has over 30 years’ experience in New Zealand investment markets. He is currently the Chief Investment Officer (contractor) and Chair of the Lifetime Asset Management Investment Committee. Peter is contracted from EriksensGlobal Limited where he is Head of Investment Consulting. He has held senior management positions with fund managers and investment consulting firms including Head of Wholesale and Private Investment at Kiwi Wealth, General Manager of AXA Global Investors and Head of Investment Consulting NZ at Mercer. Peter is a long-standing Trustee of Nikau Foundation and is a member of its Audit, Risk and Investment Committee. He lives on the Kāpiti Coast and shares a passion for native flora and fauna with his son.
Cameron Bagrie
Independent Committee Member & Economist
Cameron has been an economist for more than 20 years, including stints at National Bank, Treasury, Statistics New Zealand and more than 11 years as ANZ’s chief economist. Cameron takes a pragmatic and unbiased approach to economics and his insights are frequently sought out by the media.
Kevin Stirrat
Independent Committee Member & Strategist
Kevin has worked in financial markets for over 35 years and recently retired from Forsyth Barr after 15 years leading the investment strategy and funds management divisions.
Previously, Kevin spent 11 years in Deutsche Bank’s global markets team. He is currently a director of AJE Healthcare.
Ellen Cheyne
Member & Chief Financial Officer
Ellen joined Lifetime in 2018 and oversees finance, risk and compliance. She has 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry in the UK and New Zealand, including as head of finance and later head of strategy and planning for The Co-operative Bank.
Ellen is a Trustee of New Zealand Riding for the Disabled Perpetual Members Trust and is on the board of New Zealand Riding for the Disabled and So They Can New Zealand.
Paul Robertshawe
Investment Committee Adviser
Paul has 25 years’ experience in the fund management industry, specialising in wholesale client portfolios, including 10 years running a large New Zealand equities portfolio for ACC. He is currently chief investment officer of Forsyth Barrowned Octagon Asset Management.
Victor Huang
Investment Committee Adviser
Victor Huang is a principal with Milliman and heads up the Investment Solutions team in Australia. Victor currently leads a team of portfolio managers, actuaries, and traders who design and implement investment strategies within superannuation, (re) insurance companies, ETF managers, and managed accounts. The strategies
Victor has worked on include tail risk hedging, currency hedging, and rebalancing overlays for funds, as well as dynamic hedging programs for investment guarantee products and defined benefit liabilities. Victor holds a Bachelor of Commerce /Bachelor of Science, Actuarial studies /Statistics form UNSW and is a qualified actuary.