Mobius deploys teams across the world to scope domestic regions

Franklin Templeton manager has spent last 40 years seeking emerging market opportunities

Mark Mobius and team are responsible for 40 portfolios at Franklin Templeton, with the best-known UK vehicle the Templeton Emerging Markets investment trust he set up in 1989. He has spent nearly 40 years travelling the world - and particularly the Far East - in search of investment opportunities. Mobius 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 Warren Buffett and George Soros. The process employed by Singapore-based Mobius and his team is broadly the same across all the funds they run....