Hip-hop stars and financial luminaries: Ritholtz Wealth Management redesigns the investment conference
Huntington Beach, California
Over 2,500 investors and financial advisors have descended on Huntington Beach, California — a.k.a. Surf City USA —for a financial conference.
A financial conference on a beach? In Huntington Beach, home to nine miles of shoreline and the world center of beach volleyball?
Yep. And I mean, it is on the beach.
And who are attendees coming to see? They're coming to see big stars.
They're coming to see Method Man & Redman.
Wait, who? They're coming to see hip-hop legends Method Man (Wu-Tang Clan) & Redman (Def Squad), who will perform Tuesday night.
They're not the only stars. There will be financial luminaries as well. Jeremy Siegel from Wharton/WisdomTree. Jeff Kleintop from Charles Schwab. Emily Roland from John Hancock. Cliff Asness from AQR. Jeff Gundlach from DoubleLine. ETF and commodity maven Jan van Eck.
But this is one of those conferences where the social interaction is as important as the content.
Welcome to FutureProof, billed as «the largest gathering of top-tier wealth management professionals, CEOs, CTOs, COOs, and fast-growing financial advisors.»
It's the brainchild of Barry Ritholtz, co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and CEO Josh Brown.
«Coming out of the pandemic, it was obvious to us that the traditional financial conference was past its sell-by date,» Ritholtz told me. «Everybody was bored with lectures and tedious panels forecasting the future in giant windowless conference centers. Instead, we imagined what it would be like if events were more social and interactive and useful and (dare I say) fun! That was how FutureProof came about.»
Those of you accustomed to going to conferences with a Yoga class at 5:45 a.m.
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