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Templeton Emerging Markets Fund

Templeton Emerging Markets Fund

Franklin Templeton Investment Funds
	Templeton Emerging Markets Fund
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Price

Ranking

Sector:	Global-Equity-Emerging Markets
Size:	(USD) 685 410 000

Sector Rank:	9 out of 29
(lump sum over 3 years to 30 Apr 2025)

Overall Rank:	189 out of 490
(lump sum over 3 years to 30 Apr 2025)

R20000 invested on 30 Apr 2022 was worth R28 025 at 30 Apr 2025
(11.90% annual compound return)

R5000 per month since 30 Apr 2022 was worth R212 321 at 30 Apr 2025
(10.49% annual return compounded monthly)

Please note that offshore fund performance figures are calculated from NAV prices (ie, equivalent to sell-to-sell) and therefore not directly comparable to domestic fund performance figures on this site.

Management
Dr Mark Mobius, PhD, Templeton Asset Management Ltd
Mark Mobius joined Franklin Templeton Investments in 1987 as president of the Templeton Emerging Markets Fund Inc in Hong Kong, with responsibility for all of Templeton's emerging markets activity. In this capacity, he directs the analysts based in Templeton's eleven emerging markets offices and manages the emerging markets portfolios. Dr Mobius has spent over thirty years working in Asia and other parts of the emerging markets world, and has extensive experience in economic research and analysis. Each year he spends over 200 days travelling from one emerging market to another in search of emerging market opportunities. Prior to joining Franklin Templeton Investments, from 1983 to 1986 he was president of International Investment Trust Company Ltd - Taiwan's first and largest investment management firm. He had served as a director at Vickers da Costa, an international securities firm. He started in that firm's Hong Kong office in 1980, and then moved to Taiwan in 1983 to open an office and to direct operations in India, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Korea. Before joining Vickers, Dr Mobius operated his own consulting firm in Hong Kong for ten years, and was a research scientist for Monsanto Overseas Enterprises Company in Hong Kong and the American Institute for Research in Korea and Thailand. Dr Mobius holds bachelor and master degrees from Boston University; and received his PhD in economics and political science in 1964 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also studied at the University of Wisconsin, University of New Mexico, and Kyoto University in Japan.

Focus and Objective
The fund's investment objective is long-term capital growth by investing mainly in equity securities of emerging market companies, or those companies which derive a significant proportion of their revenues or profits from emerging economies.

Technical Overview
Benchmark:	MSCI Emerging Markets index
Administration Fee		Management fee (p.a.):	1.61%
Allows debit orders	No	Maximum Exit Fee
Annual Registrar Fee	0.20%	Minimum lump sum:	$5 000
Base currency:	USD	Minimum monthly:	$1 000
Broker Comm. Payable	Yes	Minimum Exit Fee
Custodian Fee		Number of holdings:	129
Domicile	Luxembourg	Original price:	USD 10.00
Exit fee charge:	No	Performance fee:
Formation date:	28 Feb 1991	Pricing system:	Forward
Is this fund a roll-up?	No	Promotional Fee

Top holdings on 31 Mar 2025

Share (Sector)	Value (USD)	% of fund
TAIWANSEMICON (Technology)	68 472 459	9.99%
ICICIBANK (Banks)	36 669 435	5.35%
PROSUS (Software and Computer Services)	35 092 992	5.12%
ALIBABA (Consumer Services)	32 694 057	4.77%
SAMSUNG (Goods & Services)	26 182 662	3.82%
SKHYNIXINC (Technology)	23 509 563	3.43%
TENCENT (Cyclical Goods & Services)	23 303 940	3.40%
MEDIATEK (Media)	21 521 874	3.14%
HDFCBANK (Banks)	20 151 054	2.94%
PETROLEO (Equities)	18 711 693	2.73%
TOTALS	306 309 729	44.69%