Ryan joined RVK in 2007 and serves as Director of Investment Research and a Senior Consultant, based in our Portland office. He advises some of the firm’s largest public US and global pension funds as well as corporate and endowment/foundation clients.
In addition to his consulting relationships, Ryan co-leads RVK’s Capital Markets Team which is responsible for setting the firm’s annual capital markets assumptions and he leads the firm’s Asset/Liability Team, responsible for producing highly customized studies that include deterministic, stochastic, and sensitivity analyses for public and private pension plans. Ryan’s research responsibilities are focused primarily on capital markets issues and investment decision-making. Additionally, he serves as a member of our firm’s Investment Perspectives Committee, which provides a centralized and uniform source for investment counsel and perspective across our firm’s client engagements.
Ryan earned a BS and MA degree, both in Economics, from the University of Oregon. He is a shareholder of the firm and serves on RVK’s Board of Directors.