Who is Sir John Templeton?
Sir John Templeton, born in Winchester, TN in 1912, is a renowned international investor. The first person in his family to attend college, Sir John entered Yale College in 1930. From there he attended Balliol College at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. Beginning a Wall Street career in 1937, Templeton created some of the world’s largest and most successful international investment funds. Termed arguably the greatest global stock picker of the century by Money Magazine (Jan. 1999), he sold his various Templeton funds in 1992 to the Franklin Group. Now a naturalized British citizen living in Nassau, the Bahamas, since 1966, Templeton was knighted Sir John by Queen Elizabeth II in 1987 for his many accomplishments. Please click here for his complete biography.
