Steffan Berridge

Steffan is the Acting Chief Investment Officer and leads the Investment Management Team, with overall responsibility for investment management processes and functions. He also heads the development of Responsible Investment for Kiwi Wealth.

Steffan joined them after nine years in London at AHL, one of the biggest managed futures funds in the world. His responsibilities were primarily in portfolio construction and risk management, as well as developing and managing the new research pipeline.

Steffan has significant experience in both quantitative analysis and quantitative strategy, including developing, executing, and risk-managing rule-based strategies. He also has a broad knowledge of global financial markets, from shares and bonds to futures, swaps, and options. He combines this knowledge with a pragmatic hands-on approach, bringing together technical analysis with fundamental market understanding and actual client requirements to create investment portfolios that are well-positioned to deliver superior returns over time.

Steffan has a BSc in maths and physics, a master of financial mathematics (insurance maths) from Victoria University, and a Ph.D. in mathematical finance (high dimensional option pricing) from the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands.