Our Team
“I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down, and I will not let myself down.”
— Mia Hamm
Ronald J. Ryan, CFA
Chief Executive Officer / Founder and Senior Fixed Income Manager
rryan@ryanalm.com
(561) 656-2014
CEO 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.
Steven DeVito
Head Trader and Senior Fixed Income Manager
sdevito@ryanalm.com
(631) 335-3115
Steven has 30 years’ experience as an Institutional Fixed Income trader and portfolio manager working with Private and Public institutional investors. Steven has always taken an Asset-Liability Management first approach when working with banks and Defined Benefit Pensions to help them manage risk and enhance performance.
Steven has been published in “U.S. Banker” and “Credit Union Executive Society” magazines about institutional investments, interest rate risk management, and Asset-Liability Management strategies for depository institutions.
He has also been an invited speaker-educator for Bloomberg LP, the Investment Management Institute (IMI), the Ohio Treasurer of State’s Center for Public Investment Management Advanced Institute (CPIM), educating Ohio public funds managers on investment products and strategies. He has also worked with the Director of Investments for the State of Maryland.
Martha Monteagudo
Director of Product Development and Senior Fixed Income Manager
martha@ryanalm.com
(609) 418-3232
Creates and supervises all financial models for:
ASC 715 Discount Rates
Custom Liability Index
ETF Index Benchmarks
Liability Beta Portfolio
From 1992 to 2004, Martha was the Director of Product Development at Ryan Labs Inc. where she supervised all financial models including:
Ryan Indexes (60)
Asset Management Models (TOPS, PAR)
From 1987 to 1992 Martha was an Analyst at Dow Jones/Telerate where she designed and tested key pages of Telerate.
Martha earned a BS from Seton Hall.
Russell Kamp
Managing Director and Senior Fixed Income Manager
rkamp@ryanalm.com
(201) 675-8797
Mr. Kamp is the Managing Director and Senior Asset Manager for Ryan ALM, which he joined in July 2019.
Mr. Kamp has more than 38 years of experience in the retirement industry.
Prior to joining Ryan ALM, Russ was the Managing Partner for Kamp Consulting Solutions (KCS), which was a full-retainer asset and liability consulting firm. Mr. Kamp is a passionate advocate for pension reform and legislative efforts in Washington, DC frequently writing and speaking on the subject.
Prior to launching KCS, Kamp was a Senior Vice President and Director, Asset Management, for Two Sigma Investments, where he helped launch a long-only business.
Before joining Two Sigma, Mr. Kamp was CEO of Invesco Quantitative Strategies Group (IQS). IQS was a quantitatively oriented equity, alternative, and global macro investment group that managed more than $30 billion for institutional clients.
Mr. Kamp began his career as an analyst for Janney Montgomery Scott’s Investment Management Control division, an asset consulting firm that was later acquired by Evaluation Associates, Inc., where he became a Senior Vice President, senior consultant, and partner.