Died 2008-07-08.
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John Templeton
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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Born 29 November 1912 · Died 8 July 2008 · Q248767
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2008· 3 entries
Templeton College merged with Green College to form Green Templeton College
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“The four most expensive words in the English language are "this time it’s different.”
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2007· 2 entries
Templeton College transferred its executive education program to Saïd Business School
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Templeton was named to the Time 100 list as one of the world's 100 Most Influential People by Time under the category of "Power Givers"
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2006· 1 entry
Was listed in a seven-way tie for 129th place on The Sunday Times's "Rich List"
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2005· 2 entries
Wrote a brief memorandum predicting that within five years there would be financial chaos in the world, anticipating a collapse of the housing market and decline in yields on government-issued bonds to near zero
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Templeton asserts that the purpose of the John Templeton Foundation is as follows: "We are trying to persuade people that no human has yet grasped 1% of what can be known about spiritual realities
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2004· 2 entries
Templeton donated an additional $550 million to the foundation
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His daughter, Anne Dudley Templeton Zimmerman, predeceased him in 2004, dying during heart surgery.
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1999· 1 entry
Called him "arguably the greatest global stock picker of the century"
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1994· 1 entry
Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (1994).
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1984· 1 entry
With headquarters in Nassau, The Bahamas, where Sir John lived until his death in 2008
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1983· 1 entry
To become a full college of the university by royal charter in 1995)
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1968· 1 entry
“enriches the poor more than any other system humanity has had”
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1964· 1 entry
Templeton renounced his US citizenship, which some sources claim was a strategy to minimize taxes (the United States taxes citizens globally regardless of residency)
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1954· 2 entries
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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Was among the first American firms to invest in Japan starting in the mid-1960s
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1939· 1 entry
Templeton, during the Depression of the 1930s, had his broker purchase 100 shares of each NYSE-listed company which was then selling for less than $1 a share (equivalent to $23 in 2,025) (104 companies, 37 in bankruptcy,
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1937· 1 entry
And the couple had three children: John, Anne, and Christopher
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1934· 1 entry
Awarded Rhodes Scholarship (1934).
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1912· 1 entry
Born 1912-11-29.
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