Peter Ricchiuti
Finance Professor & "Funny Economist"
Peter Ricchiuti
Finance Professor & "Funny Economist"
Biography
Peter Ricchiuti is the business school professor you wish you had back in college! He teaches at Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business where his insight and humor have twice made him the school’s top professor. Most recently, his economics class at Tulane was named as the best college course on the planet by the prestigious Wharton-QS Stars Awards, an international competition recognizing innovative approaches in higher education that enhance learning and student employability. Competitors came from almost 500 other universities, representing 43 countries.
Ricchiuti started his career with the investment firm of Kidder Peabody and later managed over three billion dollars as the assistant treasurer for the state of Louisiana. In 1993 he founded Tulane’s highly acclaimed Burkenroad Reports student stock research program. He also hosts a popular weekly business show on National Public Radio in New Orleans called “Out To Lunch” and recently published his first book, Stocks Under Rocks.
He has been featured on CNN and CNBC as well as in The New York Times, Barron’s, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Over the past twenty years, Peter Ricchiuti has addressed more than 1000 groups in 47 states and several countries. He has presented to a wide variety of audiences including workshops for the New Orleans Saints.
Speaker Videos
The Economic Winds: Where Will They Take Us
Finances Moving Forward
Listening to the Market
Consumer Driven Economy
The Kids Are Alright
Pulling an All Nighter: Personal Financing
Speech Topics
Market Signals: What The Financial Markets Are Telling Us Now??
The economy is inherently cyclical. While these cycles don’t necessarily repeat themselves, they usually rhyme. “The financial markets often foretell what’s ahead for the economy. This can illuminate opportunities and serve as valuable storm warnings for business leaders. A lot of this runs counter to what people are commonly hearing in the media.
Outline of topics covered:
- Politics and Your Investments
- Outlook for the Deficit and Interest Rates
- Outlook for Energy Prices
- Market Valuation Techniques
- Pros and Cons of International Investing
Uncertainty Brings Opportunity
The decisions made by business leaders and investors during tough times determine their relative condition when things improve. Decision makers need the proper tools to correctly balance survival and opportunism. Making the right calls involves blocking out the noise and remembering that if a majority of the people were right, … a majority of the people would be rich.
The Four Most Dangerous Words In Finance: “This Time It’s Different”
Trees don’t really grow to the sky and downturns eventually find some kind of equilibrium point. In times of great optimism and great pessimism we tend to lose sight of historical economic patterns and valuations. Unfortunately, for many each time is the first time. The buzzing background of the 24 hour news cycle only serves to make this worse. We will look at indicators that deliver perspective.
Do These Earnings Make My PE Look Big???
How high is too high? The truth is that no investment is either good or bad. It is all a function of the price that you are buying or selling it at. This kind of thinking is often ignored in a market frenzy. It’s often tough to trust your instincts, focus on the historic patterns and not get swept up by all those talking heads. As economist John Kenneth Galbraith once said “there are two kinds of forecasters, those that don’t know, and those that don’t know that they don’t know.”
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