In more than 30 years with Franklin Templeton Investments, officially Franklin Resources Inc, Mobius became an evangelist for money-making opportunities in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. In a crowd of investing advisers, he was distinctive in part for his impeccably shaved head, which inspired the nickname Bald Eagle.
(April 16): Mark Mobius, who put emerging markets on investors’ radar with on-the-ground insights over more than four peripatetic decades, has passed away. He was 89.
He died on Thursday, according to a post on his LinkedIn page attributed to his spokeswoman, Kylie Wong. John Ninia, a partner at Mobius Investments, said he died in Singapore.
