Investment fund company. Its emerging-markets fund was headed by Mark Mobius from 1987 to 2018, growing from $100m to $40bn under management across 70 countries.
The fund was founded by Sir John Templeton, who believed that countries needed a market economy open to foreign investment for their people to prosper, and that equal opportunity and the rule of law would spread around the world through a keener Western appetite for calculated risk.
"The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut."