Chairman and founder of Ryan ALM, Inc. in 2004. Ryan ALM provides a turnkey system for pensions that reduces cost and risk including: ASC 715 Discount Rates Custom Liability Index Liability Beta Portfolio The index division of Ryan ALM also provides custom indexes for ...more

Chairman and founder of Ryan ALM, Inc. in 2004. Ryan ALM provides a turnkey system for pensions that reduces cost and risk including: ASC 715 Discount Rates Custom Liability Index Liability Beta Portfolio The index division of Ryan ALM also provides custom indexes for ETFs. Prior to creating Ryan ALM, Mr. Ryan founded Ryan Labs, Inc. in 1988 which became one of the largest Enhanced Bond Index Fund managers in America. In 1982, he founded the Ryan Financial Strategy Group (RFSG) which was a fixed-income quantitative firm focused on helping bond managers outperform bond Indexes. At RFSG, he and his team created many unique financial models and index innovations. Mr. Ryan is the former Director of fixed income research at Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb from 1977–1982 where he designed most of the popular Lehman bond indexes. Prior to Lehman, he was the head of fixed income for the First in Dallas from 1973-1977, the largest bank holding company in Texas. From 1966-1973 he was a security analyst at Pan-American Life Insurance company, the largest institutional investor in Louisiana. Mr. Ryan has many indexes and financial model innovations in his career. He was awarded the William F. Sharpe Indexing Lifetime Achievement Award, the MML Lifetime Achievement Award, the Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award, and the Capital Link Most Innovative ETF Award. He authored the book “The U.S. Pension Crisis” which won the IP best financial book award in 2014. Mr. Ryan has a CFA® designation, and an MBA and BBA from Loyola University.less