John Templeton
Sir John Marks Templeton (29 November 1912 – 8 July 2008) was an American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist. In 1954, he entered the mutual fund market and created the Templeton Growth Fund, which averaged growth over 15% per year for 38 years. A pioneer of emerging market investing in the 1960s, Money magazine named him "arguably the greatest global stock picker of the century" in 1999.
Sir John Templeton | |
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| Born | John Marks Templeton 29 November 1912 Winchester, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Died | 8 July 2008 (aged 95) Nassau, Bahamas |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Yale University (BA) Balliol College, Oxford (MA) |
| Occupation(s) | Investor, fund manager, and philanthropist |
| Known for | Managing the Templeton Growth Fund Endowing Templeton College, Oxford Founding Templeton Religion Trust Founding Templeton World Charity Foundation Founding the John Templeton Foundation Creating the Templeton Prize Humility theology |
| Board member of | Princeton Theological Seminary |
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| Children | John Jr., Anne, Christopher |
| Awards | Rhodes Scholar Knight Bachelor |
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