Our History
Everstead Private Wealth exists to provide thoughtful, strategic financial advice built for longevity.
We believe wealth is not created through short-term decisions, market noise or reactive strategies. It is built through clarity, sound structure and consistent decision-making over time. Our advice is designed to help clients build, protect and enjoy wealth with confidence, across changing markets and life stages.
The name Everstead reflects this approach. It speaks to continuity, responsibility and long-term stewardship. Wealth is something entrusted – to be managed carefully, positioned intelligently and preserved for the future.
Too often, financial advice is shaped by narrow solutions or product-led thinking. We take a different view. Strategy comes first. Structure matters. Decisions should be evidence-based and aligned with the life they are intended to support.
Our role is to bring clarity to complexity and provide calm, considered guidance — from accumulation and growth, through retirement, and into intergenerational wealth planning.
Our Values
Clarity
You deserve to understand your strategy, your structures and the decisions shaping your outcomes. Clear advice leads to confident action.
Integrity
Advice should be free from pressure, bias and product agendas. We operate with transparency and always act in your long-term interests.
Stewardship
We treat your wealth with care, responsibility and respect. Your goals become our focus, and your outcomes define our success.
Excellence
High standards underpin everything we do — from research and modelling to communication and execution.
Commitment
We care deeply about the impact good advice can have. That commitment drives us to continuously refine and improve for every client we serve.
Meet Your Adviser
Meet Your Adviser
Ryan Samarasekera
Founder and Director | Private Wealth Adviser
SSA®, Grad Dip Fin Plan, Dip FMB
FS Power50 — Top 50 Most Influential Advisers in Australia
Ryan founded Everstead Private Wealth to provide clear, strategy-led financial advice designed for long-term outcomes.
With more than a decade of experience across financial advice, investment management and complex structuring, he advises professionals, business owners and families through every stage of wealth.
Ryan works across foundational planning, bespoke portfolio construction, retirement strategy and tax-aware, multi-entity structuring. He is known for his calm, measured approach and his ability to simplify complex financial strategies into clear, confident decisions.
Ryan’s advice philosophy is deliberate and forward focused. Strategy comes before products. Evidence is valued over speculation. Every recommendation is supported by robust analysis and a clear understanding of long-term outcomes.
Recognised in the FS Power50 by Financial Standard as one of Australia’s Top 50 most influential advisers, Ryan is committed to raising the standard of advice across the profession.
Outside Everstead, Ryan enjoys time with his family, exploring Melbourne cafés, following Collingwood at the MCG and travelling.
Our Philosophy
Wealth Built With Purpose
Your financial life has many moving parts: superannuation, investments, entities, debt, insurance and estate intentions. We bring it together with clarity and intentional design.
We start with strategy before any product decisions. We build evidence-based portfolios using research and discipline. We rely on quality modelling, so decisions are grounded in numbers, not noise. We provide long-term stewardship that endures across decades and generations.
We do not chase trends. We design wealth that lasts a lifetime and beyond.
