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Mark Mobius, the eagle-eyed investment legend who bet on Asia before others did
His investing style, he would say, was ‘getting out and kicking the tyres’.
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To most, Mr Mark Mobius – the long-time chairman of Franklin Templeton’s Emerging Markets Group – remained something of an enigma. He died in Singapore, aged 89.
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Back when China was a mere blip on global investors’ horizons, a shaven-headed fund manager with the alert air of a US Marine at a guard post would tout the prospects of the Chinese economy.
Many in the late 1980s and early 1990s thought Mr Mark Mobius – the long-time chairman of Franklin Templeton’s Emerging Markets Group and known to friends as Bald Eagle for his tonsured head and alert eyes – was blowing into the wind.
