Barry Ritholtz

Barry Ritholtz is an American author, newspaper columnist, blogger, market strategist, founder and wealth management executive. Ritholtz is the founder and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, a financial planning and asset management firm with over $5 billion dollars in assets under management. He first came to public notice for his warning about derivatives and mortgages leading to the financial crisis in the mid-2000s.

Ritholtz is known as a contrarian who frequently pushes back against the traditional Wall Street consensus. On YahooTV, Ritholtz flipped bullish the day of the market lows in March 2009. He is also known for warning investors not to assume Covid-19 would end the bull market on April 1, 2020. In 2024, ''Financial Planning'' magazine called him the "Prickly Prophet of Wall Street".

Before founding his firm, Ritholtz served as CEO of Fusion IQ. Prior to that, he was the chief market strategist at Maxim Group, an investment bank in New York. Provided by Wikipedia