Peter Ricchiuti

Author | Award-Winning Professor | Podcast Host |
​Founder, the Burkenroad Reports
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Peter Ricchiuti is a business professor at Tulane University's Freeman School of Business and the author of Stocks Under Rocks and Hey, That Could Be a Business! Peter has addressed over 1400 organizations in 47 states and across the world. His audience includes money managers, insurance professionals, tin can manufactures, waterpark owners, NFL players, and nuns to name a few. Peter delivers world class speeches with his own unique brand of wit, humor and intelligence and has been described as half Warren Buffett and half Robin Williams. Not your ordinary finance discussion!
VIDEOS
TEDxTU
​​INCOME INEQUALITY: THE SECRET FACTOR
NEW ORLEANS
​BOOK FESTIVAL
LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING
PETER RICCHIUTI SPEAKS
Peter Ricchiuti has taught finance at Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business for nearly 40 years. His humor and insight have earned him numerous teaching awards.  He is the business professor you wished you had in college! ​In 1993 he created the nationally acclaimed Burkenroad Reports (www.burkenroad.org), a student stock research program where he leads 200 business students in search of overlooked and underpriced stocks in six southern states. He and his program have been featured widely in the financial press including The Wall Street Journal, BARRON’s and The New York Times. 

​Peter is a graduate of Babson College and began his career with the investment firm of Kidder Peabody in Boston.  He later managed Louisiana’s $3 billion investment portfolio while serving as the assistant state treasurer.​ He served as a director of Amedisys, Inc. (AMED/NASDAQ), the nation’s largest home healthcare company from 1997-2015. He also hosts the  popular weekly podcast It's New Orleans: Out To Lunch. As the country’s most entertaining finance professor, Peter Ricchiuti conducts business New Orleans style: over lunch. Each week Peter invites guests from the New Orleans business world to join him. He hosts CEO’s, managers, musicians, biomed needle-movers, Silicon Bayou success stories, startups, entrepreneurs, and everyone in-between.   A husband, father and popular public speaker, he has attended baseball games at all 30 current major league ballparks!

Speech Topics

Market signals: what the 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: WHAT'S AHEAD?
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.”

"Not only was your presentation insightful, it was, by a wide margin, the most energetic and entertaining" presentation I have ever seen.​
— Morgan Stanley, Santa Monica, CA

Previous Engagements​​

  • American Stock Exchange
  • Ameritas Investment Corporation
  • Canadian Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors 
  • GE Capital
  • JP Morgan 
  • Mellon Asset Management 
  • ​Morgan Stanley
  • Nasdaq
  • New Orleans Saints
  • National Association of State Treasurers
  • NYU Real Estate Conference
  • TD Waterhouse 
  • Financial Planning Association of Australia


​Books

Stock Under Rocks: How to Uncover Overlooked Profitable Market Opportunities
​Peter Ricchiuti reveals the secrets of Tulane University’s Burkenroads Reports program, where he and 200+ business students work together to uncover less-followed, frequently misunderstood, and seemingly un-sexy companies that often produce superior investment returns. Their research on these "orphan stocks" powers The Burkenroad Mutual Fund, which has outperformed 99% of all stock funds over the past eleven years. You’ve seen them on CNBC, CNN, and the Nightly Business report… read about them in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
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Now, Ricchiuti shows how they do it – and how some well-informed stock sleuthing can pay off big for you, too. You’ll discover why "underfollowed" small-cap equities now offer exceptional investment opportunities, and how to leverage the surprising hidden advantages available to individual investors – including the ability to trade in stocks that don’t generate the volume and liquidity institutional investors require. Fact is, there’s very little innovative equity research on Wall Street anymore. That gives you a powerful advantage – and Ricchiuti gives you the principles and simple techniques you need to take advantage of it. Stocks Under Rocks will be the next classic for every personal investor who wants to find great investments and have fun doing it!

“Whether you’re just starting out, or you’ve been managing your portfolio for years, you’ll find actionable and helpful advice throughout his work. By profiling actual companies his students follow in his groundbreaking Burkenroads Reports program, he makes investing come to life. Lively, encouraging, and above all, useful, this is an investment book not to be missed.” 
--LouAnn Lofton, Motley Fool contributor and author of Warren Buffett Invests Like a Girl: And Why You Should, Too
Hey, That Could Be a Business
What kind of people start their own business? Tulane University business professor Peter Ricchiuti knows. As the host of "Out to Lunch", a weekly show on the NPR affiliate in New Orleans , he's interviewed thousands of them. From pepper farming to musical bowling, matchmaking to nitpicking, these businesses enable their founders to earn a living while being their own boss.

Peter tells their unique, inspiring and often hilarious stories, while sharing practical tips that will work for any budding business.

This path isn't about achieving world domination. Instead, it's about creating a meaningful business by drawing on life experience and passion. It's entrepreneurship for the rest of us. Let's face it: Every one of us has an idea for a business we would just love to try out.


​Related Links

OFFICIAL WEBSITE
BURKENROAD REPORTS
IT'S NEW ORLEANS: OUT TO LUNCH