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John Templeton

American-born British stock investor, businessman and philanthropist · United Kingdom · Founders · Lived 1912 to 2008 · aged 95

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Sir John Marks Templeton 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.

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Benjamin Franklin Medal1994
Rhodes Scholarship1934
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Sir John Marks Templeton 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.

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United Kingdom
Category
Founders
Type
Founder
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1912 to 2008 · aged 95

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