Medical technology has come a long way in the two decades since the sequencing of the human genome. Given the staggering advances ahead of us, combined with the immediate global need to find a vaccine and treatments for COVID-19, it’s little wonder that portfolio manager Rich Wolf says, “There's never been a more exciting time in health care.”

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Richmond Wolf is an equity portfolio manager with 23 years of investment experience. As an equity investment analyst, he covers U.S. medical technology companies and REITs. He holds a PhD from the California Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree from Princeton.

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