Nicholas A. Vardy is Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Global Guru Capital, an SEC registered investment adviser. He is the editor of The Global Guru, a weekly e-letter with over 170,000 subscribers, The Alpha Investor Letter, as well as Bull Market Alert, a weekly trading service, published by Washington DC Eagle Publishing. He also also a contributor to TheStreet.com

TheStreet.com

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. His investment views are regularly cited in the Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Forbes, Newsweek, and the New Republic. He has appeared regularly on CNN International and the Fox Business Network and has been an invited lecturer at the Cambridge University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and NYU Stern Business School. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Royal Society of Arts

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 and a member of the CFA Institute

CFA Institute

CFA Institute is headquartered in the United States of America at Charlottesville, Virginia, with offices in Hong Kong and London. Formerly known as the Association for Investment Management and Research , CFA Institute awards the Chartered Financial Analyst designation...

The London Junto

Vardy is Executive Director of the London Junto, a regular forum where leading London investment professionals gather to debate the top investment issues of the day.. Former guests of the London Junto have included Steve Forbes

Steve Forbes

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, Editor of Forbes magazine, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Fooled by Randomness

Fooled by Randomness

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Education

Vardy has a B.A. in Economics and M.A. in History from Stanford and a J.D. from Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School

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, where he was a classmate of future President Barack Obama. He is a former Fulbright scholar,and was part of the first group of Fulbright Scholars in Eastern Europe. He earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 1997.