FBL Financial Group Inc. announced Tuesday that Jeff Whitehead will join the company as chief investment officer on June 15. In this role, Whitehead will be a member of FBL’s management team and have overall responsibility for managing the company’s investment policy and strategy. Whitehead is replacing Charles Happel, who is retiring this year. “I am pleased to have Jeff join FBL Financial Group,” said Dan Pitcher, FBL’s CEO. “He brings extensive investment management experience in the insurance industry. Jeff’s proven leadership and deep insurance investment experience will allow him to successfully lead FBL’s investment team and manage FBL Financial Group’s high-quality investment portfolio.” For the past 19 years, Whitehead has been with Aegon USA Investment Management, where he has led a team responsible for managing Transamerica’s $85 billion general account portfolios. Before Aegon, he was director of sales, marketing and insurance portfolio strategy for PIMCO, and vice president, insurance portfolio strategist and director of insurance marketing with Conseco Capital Management. Whitehead holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and is a chartered financial analyst.