New York Police Department (NYPD) officers outside the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City on Wed., Dec. 4, 2024. Brian Thompson, a longtime UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive, was fatally shot early Wednesday morning in what authorities described as a targeted attack that sent reverberations across the city and corporate boardrooms globally. (Credit: Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg)

(Bloomberg) — UnitedHealth Group’s investor day turned from an ordinary corporate meeting in a midtown Manhattan hotel to a scene of stunned grief.

“It was mid-presentation when everyone began to get the headlines,” said Michael Ha, a health-care analyst at Baird who sat among roughly 275 attendees at the Wednesday event when news alerts started pinging attendees’ mobile phones. “We were all looking around, we were all shocked and confused.”

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