Richard Buhrman

Rick Buhrman is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Sator Grove Holdings, a permanent capital investor rooted in love and helping the world’s top entrepreneurs, operators and investors attain the extraordinary. Prior to the Grove, he served as an Investment Director at the University of Notre Dame Investment Office from 2006 through 2020. During that time, Rick had responsibility for numerous teams and asset classes, including public equity, hedge funds and fixed income. Previously, he worked as an Equity Associate at Fidelity Management & Research.

Rick currently serves on the boards of SEEN, Summus Global, as well as software companies, Upliift Group and Azlin Software.

Rick has been teaching at Notre Dame for over a decade, having previously co-founded the class, Art of Investing, prior to creating Investing and the Good Life all in collaboration with Paul Buser. He and Paul also co-host the popular investing podcast, Joys of Compounding.

Rick holds a bachelor of business administration in finance from the University of Notre Dame and a master of business administration from Harvard Business School. He also completed graduate studies in theology at the University of Oxford as a Harvard University Frederick Sheldon Fellow.

Rick lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida and can be found barefoot and near a beach when he's not teaching or playing tennis. He and his wife, Chelsea, have three biological children (Theo, Grace and Tobias) and have also served as foster parents to numerous children.

SFP Featured Course: Investing in the Good Life

The Art of Investing is an advanced, capstone course aimed at weaving together insights from senior members of the Notre Dame Investment Office, CEOs, Investors, and other leaders from various fields. The objective of the course is to present a broad perspective on security analysis that goes beyond valuation and models. The focus will be analyzing investments from a more well-rounded perspective, incorporating aspects of sustainability, capital allocation, firm culture, and leadership into security analysis. Thus, the students will come from various backgrounds and majors and be expected to bring their insights to bear on case studies and readings for each class session. An important feature of this course is the willingness to participate in discussions and the ability to manage both detailed and broad discussion topics regarding specific companies, broader markets, and human behavior.