Ryan Larson

Ryan Larson is Co-Lead Portfolio Manager at Strategic Income Management (SiM), an independent, 100% employee-owned investment firm founded in 2010 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. SiM specializes in high-yield fixed income investing for institutional clients, built around fundamental, high-conviction, index-independent credit research. Larson joined the firm at its founding in August 2010 and, alongside firm President and CIO Gary Pokrzywinski, CFA, co-manages the firm's portfolios while directing its investment research efforts. He brings roughly 15 years of investment experience.

He earned a B.A. with honors in Commerce, Organizations and Entrepreneurship from Brown University (2008). Earlier in his career he worked at Wachovia Securities, LLC before helping found SiM. He holds both the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA, earned 2012) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA, earned 2012) designations and is a member of the CFA Society of Seattle.

At SiM, Larson is part of a small, credential-heavy investment team that also includes Gary Pokrzywinski (President, CIO & Co-Lead PM), Kevin Power, CFA (Portfolio Manager), Greg Holmes, CFA (High Yield Trader), and analysts Lauren Reese and Ganesh Balasubramanian. The firm markets itself on disciplined risk management, a repeatable process, and a preference for stable industries and undervalued securities.

• Invests in high-yield / non-investment-grade corporate fixed income on behalf of institutional clients — this is credit investing, not equity or venture.
• Approach is described by SiM as "a long-term perspective rooted in rigorous fundamental research," emphasizing high-conviction, index-independent strategies that favor stable industries and undervalued securities.
• Prioritizes disciplined risk management and repeatable, "common sense" processes over benchmark-hugging.
• No publicly documented thesis, check size, or target-company profile for angel/seed-stage equity investing was found for this individual.