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Healthcare: Billionaires Are Buying Healthcare Stocks – Should You Follow In Their Footsteps?

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🗓️ 1 June 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Investing gurus are snapping up shares in healthcare companies, but investors should do their own research before buying too.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

0:10.0

It is Wednesday, June 1st, 2016, and on this show we're looking at where billionaires are

0:15.6

laying down their money in the health care sector.

0:18.3

I'm Christine Harjus, and I'm happy to welcome Motley Fool Healthcare contributor,

0:21.8

Todd Campbell, back to the show calling in

0:23.8

as usual from Skype. Hey dad. Hi how are you? Pretty good. Before we get the show

0:29.0

started did you know that it's Global Running Day? I did not. Yeah I figured kind of relevant to the

0:36.1

health care episode and earlier today I saw an interesting Washington Post article

0:40.9

that running is the perfect time to listen to

0:43.2

podcasts. Kind of interesting right? Yeah I like the way you did that that's

0:49.1

perfect. It's all very relevant so the theory goes in case you're curious

0:53.1

that when you're running, it puts you in a state of mind

0:56.0

that you can better think creatively and solve problems.

0:59.4

You've got dopamine and serotonin in your bloodstream.

1:02.3

It's readying you for creative thinking. dopamine and

1:03.8

Serotonin in your bloodstream it's readying you for creative thinking and it's all the kind of stuff that is supposedly really good for listening to podcasts

1:09.4

Hey and you know what if you don't like to run I bet you if you're just like to go out for a brisk walk

1:14.0

would probably have the same effect right? Yeah if you can survive this June heat get out there.

1:19.4

So today's episode at the meat of the, we won't just talk about running and

1:23.3

podcasting the whole time. We were inspired by an announcement made yesterday by

1:27.8

the famous billionaire investor Carl ICON and we will dive into this news. We're also going to talk a little bit about whether or not it's wise to follow in the footsteps of these billionaire investors.

1:38.0

And then we'll highlight some other interesting recent billionaire health care buys.

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