Rick retired as Chief Investment Officer of the Missouri State Employees’ Retirement System (MOSERS) in 2016 after holding that position for 21 years. During his tenure with the pension fund, he oversaw all investment operations, including its involvement in the timberland asset class through RMS. Under his leadership, MOSERS produced performance that was consistently in the top decile of state-wide public pension funds and was among the first public pension funds in the United States to make investments in commodities, inflation-indexed bonds and hedge funds. Rick is a past board member of several international timber funds and Gateway Energy Partners, LLC, which owns and operates natural gas gathering, transmission and distribution systems. He also was an investment committee member of Ascension Health, the nation’s largest Catholic, non-profit health system.
Today, Rick’s company, HollanDahl Capital Advisors LLC, serves as an advisor to the University of Missouri Investment Department, which operates a portfolio valued at more than $7.0 billion. An avid outdoorsman and hunter, Rick owns and leases approximately 700 acres in Central Missouri, which he manages with a strong conservation ethic. He currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Deer Association, a non-profit organization that was formed by a merger of the Quality Deer Management Association and the National Deer Alliance in 2020 and that focuses on the conservation of wild deer and their habitats. Rick is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia where he earned a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance. He also is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP).