Ryan Nauman is a Market Strategist, investment thought leader, and host of the Views from 6,230 podcast, where he explores the trends shaping financial markets, investment strategies, and the evolving wealth management landscape.

With more than two decades of experience across investment research, portfolio strategy, and financial markets, Ryan helps financial advisors, asset managers, and investment professionals navigate complexity by connecting market trends with actionable portfolio insights. His expertise spans asset allocation, ETFs, SMAs, mutual funds, portfolio construction, behavioral finance, economic trends, and the intersection of markets and innovation.

But Ryan didn’t take the traditional path into investment management. He didn’t graduate from a prestigious university, land a coveted internship, and follow a perfectly mapped-out career path into finance. His career has been much more of a learn-as-you-go journey — one that has required him to continually play catch-up, ask questions, and challenge himself to learn something new every day.

That mindset has become one of the defining characteristics of his career. And in an investment environment that is constantly evolving, there is certainly no shortage of things to learn.

Ryan grew up in a very small town in Wisconsin, which may explain both his independent path and his unhealthy love affair with the Wisconsin Badgers. His curiosity eventually led him into the investment world, where he discovered that the more he learned, the more he realized how much he didn’t know.

Over the course of his career, Ryan has become a trusted market voice, translating complex investment concepts into clear and actionable perspectives. His market commentary and research have been featured across financial media platforms, and his insights are regularly leveraged by advisors and investors seeking to better understand market opportunities, risks, and emerging trends.

Through Views from 6,230 feet, Ryan brings together investment professionals, industry leaders, and innovative thinkers to examine the forces influencing markets, portfolios, and investor behavior. The platform is built around a simple mission: helping investment professionals better prepare for what comes next by focusing not just on returns, but on the risks required to achieve them.

Because successful investing isn’t just about chasing opportunity — it’s about understanding the risks along the way.

And while markets and investing occupy a pretty large portion of Ryan’s life, they aren’t the whole story.

When he’s not in the office, you’ll usually find him trying to keep up with his son on the basketball court, baseball and football fields, or soccer pitch. The competition is getting harder, and Ryan is beginning to suspect that his son may eventually stop letting him win.

The two also share an unhealthy passion for sports card collecting, because apparently following financial markets and analyzing investments wasn’t enough of a reason to spend time looking at charts and obsessing over valuations.

At his core, Ryan is curious. He’s a lifelong learner who enjoys asking questions, challenging conventional thinking, connecting seemingly unrelated dots, and trying to make sense of an increasingly complicated world.

Whether he’s talking about markets, wealth management, AI, the economy, sports, or the latest Wisconsin Badgers game, his goal is pretty simple: