Founder & Chief Investment Officer, Ritholtz Wealth Management
For 25 years, Barry Ritholtz has been working at the intersection of behavioral finance and data analytics. He is the Chief Investment Officer and Chairman of Ritholtz Wealth Management, managing $2.5 billion in client assets. The 8-year-old firm is one of the fastest-growing RIAs in America, and was named ETF Advisor of the Year, and was one of the Financial Times Top 300 Advisors.
He is the creator and host of Masters in Business, Bloomberg Radio’s most popular and longest running podcast. The show features 60-90 minute conversations with many of the most accomplished, fascinating people in the world of business and investing. MiB just celebrated its 7th year.
Ritholtz has been named one of the “15 Most Important Economic Journalists” in the United States, and has been called one of the “25 Most Dangerous People in Financial Media.” He publishes on all things finance at Bloomberg Opinion and BusinessWeek; from 2011-2016, was the personal finance columnist for The Washington Post.
His long-standing finance weblog, The Big Picture, has led to some calling him the “blogfather.” TBP generates half a million page views per month and has been covering everything investing-related since 2003. The blog has amassed over 250 million visitors.