Sarah Godfrey talks to 'the Indiana Jones of fund management', Dr Mark Mobius - famous founder of the Templeton Emerging Markets fund and inveterate traveller - to discover what conclusions his adventures in the realm of emerging markets have formed
Indiana Jones may be back on our cinema screens after an absence of 19 years, but the man dubbed the 'Indiana Jones of fund management' has been present all along. Dr Mark Mobius, who is manager of 11 funds for Franklin Templeton, but probably most famous for the Templeton Emerging Markets investment trust he set up in 1989, has spent nearly 40 years travelling the world - and particularly the Far East - in search of investment opportunities. He has achieved such fame that last year he was the subject of a Manga cartoon biography - a distinction he shares with such august investors as War...
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