About Mark Mobius:
Joseph Mark Mobius is an emerging markets fund manager at Franklin Templeton Investments. Mark Mobius, Ph.D., executive chairman of Templeton Emerging Markets Group, joined Templeton in 1987. Currently, he directs the Templeton research team based in 18 global emerging markets offices and manages emerging markets portfolios. After remaining at the helm for nearly quarter of a century, Mark Mobius has decided to step down as the lead manager of the Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (TEMIT) and will hand over control of the fund to Carlos Hardenberg on October 1. Mobius, however, will remain on the portfolio management team of the trust (TEMIT).