WEBINAR: India: Resilient domestic economy amongst global trade turmoil
Please join Rashi Talwar Bhatia, Portfolio Manager for India Equity, and Gustavo Medeiros, Ashmore’s Global Head of Research.
Wednesday, 14th May 2025
11:00am EDT | 4:00pm BST | 5:00pm CEST
The discussion will cover their views on the areas below and more:
- Best long term growth drivers across EM.
- Most favoured nation on trade war with US.
- Recent economy slowdown: A cyclical blip in structural growth trajectory.
- Risks to monitor: Rich valuations and geopolitics.
Speaker biographies
Rashi Talwar Bhatia
Rashi Talwar Bhatia is Head of Ashmore’s India office and is responsible for managing long-only India equity mandates. Rashi joined the Ashmore India team in 2007 as a senior research analyst and became a Co-Portfolio Manager in 2011. In January 2022, Rashi became the lead Portfolio Manager and is also Chair for the India sub-Investment Committee.
With over 20 years of Indian equity market experience, she is skilled in combining macro top-down view with a bottom-up analysis to generate investment ideas for the portfolio. Before joining Ashmore, she had worked in multiple roles in Kotak Institutional Equities and Motilal Oswal from 2001 to 2007.
Rashi holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Hindu College, Delhi University and an MBA from Owen School of Management, Vanderbilt University, USA.
Gustavo Medeiros
Gustavo is responsible for following macroeconomic and political developments across developed economies and emerging markets. He is responsible for providing a review and forward-looking views of macro top-down developments on a weekly basis to the Investment Committee and, where required, works with the investment teams to translate these views in actionable investment ideas.
Before joining Ashmore, Gustavo worked for ten years at HSBC in São Paulo and London, where he traded Latin American local rates and currencies. After joining Ashmore in 2011, Gustavo worked for six years with the local currency team covering Latin America before joining the sovereign external debt team as portfolio manager responsible for Eastern European and African markets.
Gustavo was appointed to Deputy Head of Research in October 2019 and became Head of Research in October 2021. He holds a degree in Business Administration from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado in São Paulo and is a CFA charterholder.