Senior Consultant, Northwestern Mutual Investment Management Company

Ronald P. Joelson is a senior consultant working with Northwestern Mutual field offices, teams and clients to share his extensive experience and insights into the General Account and its impact on product value as well as the role of life insurance in helping clients achieve financial security. Ron was the executive vice president and chairman, Northwestern Mutual Investment Management Company (NMIMC) and member of Northwestern Mutual’s Senior Leadership Team from 2021 until the end of 2022. He has also served as Northwestern Mutual’s Chief Investment Officer (CIO), responsible for the company’s $250+ billion General Account investment portfolio and overseeing its Public Investments, Private Investments, Real Estate and Investment Strategy departments (2012-2021).

In his current role, Joelson shares his extensive investment experience, expertise and insights through a range of engagements with Northwestern Mutual’s more than 9,000 sales professionals and their clients. Frequent topics include the value of the Northwestern Mutual’s unsurpassed financial strength, The Power of the (General Account) Portfolio, the virtues of long-term investing and the vital role of insurance in helping clients achieve financial security. Joelson also helps clients understand how the current investment and economic climate may impact them.

Joelson was CIO at major insurers twice before, starting in 2000 — at Prudential Financial and Genworth Financial. During his 23-year tenure with Prudential, Joelson held several other roles, including president of the company’s Guaranteed Products business and head of both the Structured Finance Group and the Enterprise Planning Group. His investment experience includes familiarity not only with the whole spectrum of investment asset classes, but also with risk management, investment strategy, analytics and leadership development.