Amritha Kasturirangan

Amritha Kasturirangan is a vice president, portfolio manager and research analyst for Franklin Equity Group at Franklin Templeton. She is a portfolio manager for the team’s Rising Dividends Strategy, which includes Franklin Rising Dividends Fund. She has worked for Franklin Templeton in the US and Asia since joining the firm in 2009. Prior to that, she worked in equity research covering the Biotechnology sector at Goldman Sachs, and in investment banking at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and management consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers. She is a graduate of Wharton and the University of Cambridge, U.K.