Mark Mobius, of Franklin Templeton, keynote speaker at the 9th Asia-Pacific Investment C0nference, October 2009 in Manila.
Mark Mobius, of Franklin Templeton, keynote speaker at the 9th Asia-Pacific Investment C0nference, October 2009 in Manila.
See Interview with Hedge Fund Giant Julian Robertson, Part Two
Back when mutual fund management was still an honorable gig. Sir John Templeton was the first mutual fund manager to begin actively investing in Emerging Markets (Mark Mobius is his right hand man in this regard). Peter Lynch of Fidelity Magellan was the top performing mutual fund manager of the 20th century. Read the rest of this entry »
The pioneer of global investing and founder of the first Emerging Markets investment fund.

John Bogle founder Vanguard
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E. M. Murray. Managed Equities. Fixed Downside Risk.
There’s much to learn from Nobel Laureate Robert Merton, both what to do and what not to do.
Hailed as the Newton of Modern Finance, in academic circles he’s perhaps most famous for the Black-Scholes-Merton options pricing formula, for which he shared the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics.
In 1998 Merton was partly to blame for the collapse of Long Term Capital Management–a hedge fund which failed spectacularly by losing $4.6 billion in less than four months. In January 2009, his financial advisory firm Trinsum Group, filed for bankruptcy.

Seth Klarman, Baupost Group
The Benjamin Graham Centre for Value Investing
Seth A. Klarman, MBA, The Baupost Group
March 17, 2009 – Videoconference
Seth Klarman at the Benjamin Graham Center for Value Investing
Mr. Klarman is President of The Baupost Group, L.L.C. Founded in 1982, Baupost discretionarily manages $15 billion for a number of institutional and wealthy individual investors. Baupost uses a value discipline with an event-driven bias to find global opportunities in such diverse areas as publicly-traded and private equities, bankrupt and financially-distressed debt, and real estate.
Note: The quality of this video is, well, abysmal. Nevertheless, it is one of the most profound I’ve come across in the last 10 years. This video is provided for your information and enjoyment. Although I admire Klarman’s investment philosophy greatly, I would not categorize myself as a Value Investor per se.
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E. M. Murray. Managed Equities. Fixed Downside Risk.