John Templeton

For other people named John Templeton, see John Templeton (disambiguation).

Sir
John Templeton
Born
John Marks Templeton

(1912-11-29)29 November 1912
Winchester, Tennessee, U.S.
Died8 July 2008(2008-07-08) (aged 95)
Nassau, Bahamas
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Alma materYale University (BA)
Balliol College, Oxford (MA)
Occupation(s)Investor, fund manager, and philanthropist
Known forManaging 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 ofPrinceton Theological Seminary
Spouses
  • Judith Folk
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    (m. 1937; died 1951)​
  • Irene Reynolds Butler
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    (m. 1958; died 1993)​
ChildrenJohn Jr., Anne, Christopher
AwardsRhodes Scholar
Knight Bachelor

Sir John Marks Templeton (29 November 1912 – 8 July 2008)[1] 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,[2] which averaged growth over 15% per year for 38 years.[3] A pioneer of emerging market investing in the 1960s,[4] Money magazine named him "arguably the greatest global stock picker of the century" in 1999.[2]

  1. ^ McFadden, Robert D. (9 July 2008). "Sir John M. Templeton, Philanthropist, Rockstar, Dies at 95". The New York Times.
  2. ^ a b "Life Story | The John Templeton Foundation". www.templeton.org. Archived from the original on 11 January 2017. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  3. ^ William Greene (1999). The Secrets Of Sir John Templeton (January 1, 1999). CNN Money, accessed 29 August 2020
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Templeton&Phillips2008 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).