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ABOUT ASHU DUTT

Few Financial market gurus combine the sheer breadth and depth of experience in Financial Markets that Ashu encompasses. Ashu has always been known to hold his ground and look beyond the news and noise to analyze what markets and stocks really are

Over the past decades Ashu has lived through 3 complete market cycles across the globe including the US bust and boom markets of 1990, the Thai markets during the Asian Financial crisis and perhaps the epoch making Indian markets for the past 12 years

He has seen the evolution of modern financial markets through the eyes of the financial markets media revolution being one of the first pioneers in financial tv. As an anchor, editor and Financial Markets consultant to Start News, CNBC and NDTV over the past decade, Ashu’s knowledge of the market’s players and their rise is unmatched

Ashu has anchored several marquee Financial Markets & Personal Finance shows including CNBC’s Bazaar, CNBC’s "Classroom”, CNBC’s Mutual Fund Investor, CNBC’s Insurance Intelligence, NDTV’s “Opening Moves”, NDTV’s “2.30 Factor” and Star New’s “Star Business News”. His style is non reverential and no nonsense. He has an uncanny ability to communicate the most complex financial markets and Personal Finance issues in the simplest of terms, to bring millions of viewers and readers, analysis they have gained from

Ashu was the CEO of Northbridge Capital (Member, National Stock Exchange & OTC Exchange of India ), an institutional broker and equities research house. Northbridge Capital was listed for 3 continuous years in the “Who’s Who in Asian Equities”, a widely followed benchmark used by institutional investors for selecting quality brokerage houses in Asian countries

Ashu is the author of the “The Penguin Guide to Personal Finance” and the “The Penguin Guide to Winning on the Stock Market” published by Penguin Books. Ashu is currently working on 3 more books on Financial Markets. He has written for top tier publications from time to time on invitation

Ashu is also a popular and respected speak in Asian Financial circles and has been the keynote speaker in Asian conferences on Real Estate Structured Finance, Private Equity, Wealth Management etc. He has been invited by top tier investment banks/private banks like UBS, Barclays and Citibank to speak at their conferences

Ashu’s unique visionary perspective combines:

An ability to “peer into the future”. Ashu has always had a unique ability to look beyond today has been clearly demonstrated in his writings over the past decade
A keep sense of financial history. Ashu’s premise that financial history repeats itself and his ability to peer into the future leveraging his knowledge of history is well established
Few have seen financial markets from so many angles. Ashu has studied, followed, won and lost in these markets for over 2 decades as a financial markets student, a stock broker, a wealth manager, a financial markets television editor and a nationally renowned author. Few have walked such a diverse path to see financial markets from so many angles
A global perspective. Ashu’s perspective of global financial markets is backed by staying all around the globe. Is this overvalued? Is this undervalued? Ashu’s vision is not clouded by local factors. He can take an aerial view on each of these issues

Before returning to India in 1996, Ashu was Manager-International Taxes and Special Projects at Continental Grain Company, the world’s fourth largest private company and the second largest commodities and commodities options trader (and a member at the Chicago Board of Trade) headquartered in New York He has also worked as a Tax Policy Analyst with the Office of Tax Policy, New York City Department of Finance in New York

Ashu is a Certified Public Accountant certified in the State of Maryland, USA. He holds an M.B.A from Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York , New York . He also holds a B.B.A.(Summa Cum Laude) in Finance & Investments from Bernard M. Baruch College , City University of New York, New York. His specializations include Economics and Options&Futures. He is the recipient of the “Baruch College Alumni Scholarship” and has been listed in the “Who’s Who on the Dean’s List”Bottom of Form

Ashu can be reached at ashu@ashudutt.com

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