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    Dr. John Rutledge was one of the principal architects of the Reagan economic plan in 1980-81 and has been an advisor to the Bush White House on tax policy. Dr. Rutledge is the Chairman of the Rutledge Capital, a private equity investment firm that has invested more than $150 million in middle market manufacturing, distribution, and service companies and is a member of the Advisory Boards of B.V. Group, a venture capital, hedge fund, and real estate investment firm, and Saugatuck Capital, a private equity firm. Dr. Rutledge recently accepted the appointment of Financial Advisor to the the Governor of Haidian District in Beijing , China and a visiting professorship at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also a board member of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, the Heartland Institute, and a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute.

    Dr. Rutledge has an active lecture practice, giving talks on global economics, financial markets, investment strategies, the impact of technology on the economy, and strategies for owning and growing the value of a business. After tours of duty in both academics and government policy, he has started, run, chaired, owned, and harvested dozens of companies, and has managed real money in both mutual funds and private equity.

    Dr. Rutledge first introduced his Asset Market Shift framework for analyzing capital markets in The Wall Street Journal in the 1980's. Initially controversial, the framework, in which interest rates and other asset prices are determined by private arbitrage behavior, applies a rigorous foundation from thermodynamics to portfolio management. Dr. Rutledge uses the framework to track asset market shifts and develop strategies that attract capital and build wealth, bridging the gap between macroeconomic analysis and portfolio management. Over the past twenty years he has used this framework on economic analysis, asset allocation, portfolio selection, business strategy, restructuring, acquisitions, and divestitures. Dr. Rutledge advises institutional and individual investors how to structure portfolios to take advantage of opportunities created by a temporary divergence of prices from Intrinsic Value. His many advisory and speaking clients include governments, corporations, and financial institutions around the world.

    Dr. Rutledge appears weekly on Fox News' Saturday morning business shows Forbes on Fox and Cavuto on Business. He is appears regularly on CNBC's Kudlow & Company, and is a frequent guest on Market Hour, Closing Bell, PBS' Wall Street Week with Fortune, and CNN In the Money. Dr. Rutledge wrote the Business Strategy column for Forbes for more than a decade and writes for Forbes.com and TheStreet.com. Dr. Rutledge is one of the principal authors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce study on telecom reform and has written two books and hundreds of articles for The Wall Street Journal, the American Spectator, Barron's, Forbes, Fortune, the National Review, the Financial Times, US News and World Report, Business Week, and other publications. He has testified before Congressional Committees and has advised government officials in the US , UK , Ireland , and Kuwait .

    Dr. Rutledge served on the faculties of Tulane University and Claremont McKenna College , where he taught monetary economics, international finance, and econometrics. In 1978, Dr. Rutledge founded the Claremont Economics Institute, an economic advisory business in Claremont , California . He holds a BA from Lake Forest College and a PhD from the University of Virginia . He divides his time between Greenwich, Connecticut, Newport Beach, Beijing, and Maui .
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