Ryan Brockhaus

Ryan resides in Prior Lake, where he and his wife Katie raise their two boys Ashton (9) and Jaxon (7). Ryan and Katie met at Wisconsin Eau Claire while playing for their respective golf teams. They are members at Brackett’s Crossing Country Club where they enjoy their rounds of golf together and the family club events. Ryan is active in St. Michael's Catholic School and the Prior Lake Hockey Association. As a family, they enjoy traveling together and keeping busy with extra-curricular activities for their boys.

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Professional

Ryan joined Northwestern Mutual as an Intern in December of 2006. He has been a full-time Wealth Management Advisor since 2007.

Ryan is a member of the following Associations and Memberships:

  • Prior Lake Chamber of Commerce
  • Brackett's Crossing Country Club
  • St. Michael Catholic School-Prior Lake
  • Ryan and Katie also started the Pillar Scholarship-awarded to student athletes demonstrating excellence and leadership qualities in Ryan’s hometown of Mayville, WI

Ryan has completed the following education to better serve his clients:

  • Certified Financial Planner, CFP®, Kaplan University
  • Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU®), The American College
  • Certified in Fee Based Planning.

Awards and Recognition

  • Forbes Best in State Top Financial Security Professionals 2024
    • #37 in Minnesota
  • Million Dollar Round Table Qualifying Member since 2015
    • MDRT is the premier association of financial professionals. MDRT status designation is granted for one year and members must apply every year to continue their affiliation with the MDRT
  • National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors Quality Award 2011-2019
    • Award recognizing commitment to excellence in service to clients and industry
Forbes "Best-in-State Wealth Advisors" list (April 2024), Research and ranking provided by SHOOK Research, LLC. Based upon data as of 6/30/2023. Northwestern Mutual and its advisors do not pay for placement on 3rd party rating lists, but do pay marketing fees to these organizations to promote the rating(s).  Rankings and recognitions are no guarantee of future investment success. 

Lending a hand in my community.

As part of Northwestern Mutual, I'm proud to help accelerate the search for better childhood cancer treatments while supporting families undergoing treatment, and survivors from late effects. Here are some of the organizations we partner with:

Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer (ALSF)

ALSF funds cancer research, raises awareness, and supports the families of children with cancer. Since 2012, Northwestern Mutual, its employees, and financial professionals like me have donated more than $20 million to support ALSF and fund over 400,000 research hours.

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Beads of Courage

Beads of Courage is an art-in-medicine program that helps kids with cancer tell their unique treatment story through colorful beads that are symbols of their courage.

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Here are my areas of expertise

Financial Planning

Insurance Protection Strategies

Life Insurance Strategies

Retirement Planning & Income Strategies

Education Planning & Funding

Disability Planning

Multigenerational Planning

Estate Planning

How Northwestern Mutual helps you live the life you want.

When people feel better about their money, good things happen—they become more confident and feel more secure. For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has helped people achieve the financial flexibility they need to live more and worry less.

Being a mutual company means Northwestern Mutual reports to its clients, not Wall Street. They don't believe in chasing fads or taking undue risk for short-term gains. Instead, they take a long-term approach—both in the way we help people plan to reach their goals, and in the way they do business. This has served their clients (and mine) well through all kinds of economic ups and downs, including wars, recessions, even the recent pandemic.

It's why I'm happy to be part of a company that's in it for the long-haul and prioritizes clients over profit.

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