John Marks Templeton, renowned stock investor and businessman, was born on 29 November 1912, in the town of Winchester, Tennessee. He became a naturalized British citizen and lives in Nassau, Bahamas. A Stock Trader or Stock Investor is a securities professional or firm, who buys and sells securities, such as stocks and bonds. ... A businessman (sometimes businesswoman, female; or businessperson, gender neutral) is a generic term for a wide range of people engaged in profit-oriented enterprises, generally the management of a company. ... November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Winchester is a city located in Franklin County, Tennessee 6. ... For other uses, see Nassau (disambiguation). ...

Business

Sir John Marks Templeton is a highly successful pioneer of globally diversified mutual funds, becoming a billionaire. He established: A mutual fund is a form of collective investment that pools money from many investors and invests the money in stocks, bonds, short-term money-market instruments, and/or other securities. ...

• Templeton Growth, Ltd. (investment fund) in 1954;
• the John Templeton Foundation;
• the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities in 1972.
• the Templeton Library in Sewanee, Tennessee.

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Personal

• He attended Yale University, pledged the Zeta Psi Fraternity and was selected for membership in the Elihu secret society. He graduated in 1934 as a top scholar in his class.
• He was a Rhodes Scholar to Balliol College, University of Oxford from which he graduated with a M.A. degree in law. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter-holder.
• He is a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church.
• He was a trustee on the board of Princeton Theological Seminary, the largest Presbyterian seminary, for 42 years and served as its chair for 12 years.
• He married the former Judith Folk in 1937 and the couple had three children — John, Anne and Christopher. She died in February, 1951.
• He married Irene Reynolds Butler in 1958. She passed away in 1993.
• He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1987 for his philanthropic efforts.

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External link

• John Templeton Foundation :: Sir John Templeton :: Biography
• Sir John Templeton's 5-Step Strategy For Financial Success - How to Build Wealth With Risks, Bargains and Tax Deferral

Interview

• Interview with Sir John Templeton - with Eleanor Laise of SmartMoney on April 1, 2004.
• Sir John Templeton Interview - on stocks, currencies, China, and real estate, April 2005