Profile's ShareData Online
Offshore Trusts
ManCo List
Funds by Name
Funds by Category
Word Search
FAQ
Templeton Asian Growth Fund
Templeton Asian Growth Fund
Franklin Templeton Investment Funds
Templeton Asian Growth Fund
News
Regional Portfolio Structure(Semi-Annual Comparison)
Sectorial Portfolio Structure(Semi-Annual Comparison)
Price
 
Ranking
Sector: Far East-Equity-General
Size: (USD) 1 920 000 000
 
Sector Rank: 9 out of 18
(lump sum over 3 years to 30 Nov 2024)
 
Overall Rank: 423 out of 485
(lump sum over 3 years to 30 Nov 2024)
 
R20000 invested on 30 Nov 2021 was worth R20 091 at 30 Nov 2024
(0.15% annual compound return)
 
R5000 per month since 30 Nov 2021 was worth R199 140 at 30 Nov 2024
(6.47% 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
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.
 
Allan Lam
 
Focus and Objective
Long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in equity securities of companies incorporated or who have their area of primary activity in Asia (excluding Australia, New Zealand and Japan).
 
Technical Overview
Benchmark: MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan index
Allows debit orders No Formation date: 30 Jun 1991
Annual Registrar Fee 0.20% Management fee (p.a.): 1.97%
Base currency: USD Minimum lump sum: $5 000
Broker Comm. Payable Yes Minimum monthly: $1 000
Domicile Luxembourg Number of holdings: 84
Exit fee charge: No Pricing system: Forward
 
Top holdings on 30 Sep 2024
Share (Sector) Value (USD) % of fund
TAIWANSEMICON (Technology) 188 928 000 9.84%
TENCENT (Cyclical Goods & Services) 142 080 000 7.40%
ICICIBANK (Banks) 115 776 000 6.03%
SAMSUNG (Goods & Services) 96 960 000 5.05%
AIAGROUPLTD (Insurance) 93 504 000 4.87%
ALIBABA (Consumer Services) 88 896 000 4.63%
HDFCBANK (Banks) 59 904 000 3.12%
HYUNDAI (Auto) 47 616 000 2.48%
MEDIATEK (Media) 47 040 000 2.45%
TOTALS 880 704 000 45.87%

Site Last Updated: 23 December 2024
© 1999-2006
Profile Media . All rights reserved.
JSE and the JSE logo are trade marks of the JSE.
Legal Notices | PAIA Manual