Joseph Bernhard Mark Mobius was born on August 17,1936 and is an American-born German emerging markets fund manager and founder of Mobius Capital Partners LLP.
11 Facts About Mark Mobius
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Mark Mobius was previously employed at Franklin Templeton where he ran the Templeton Emerging Markets Group for over three decades.
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Joseph Bernhard Mark Mobius was born to German and Puerto Rican parents in Hempstead, New York.
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Mark Mobius studied at the University of Wisconsin, University of New Mexico, and Kyoto University in Japan.
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Mark Mobius once ran an independent consulting company that marketed, among other things, Snoopy cartoon merchandise.
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In 2015, after leading the company for over a quarter of a century, Mark Mobius decided to step down as the lead manager of the Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust and handed over control of the fund to Carlos Hardenberg.
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In March 2018, Mark Mobius launched Mark Mobius Capital Partners together with his former Templeton colleagues Carlos von Hardenberg and Greg Konieczny.
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Mark Mobius renounced his US citizenship and is a German citizen.
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On March 2,2023, Mark Mobius told Fox Business in an interview that he cannot take his money out of China due to the country's capital controls.
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Mark Mobius said that he would be "very, very careful" investing in the country.
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However Mark Mobius has still remained critical of capital controls in China stating that removing capital outflow restrictions would benefit China's economy.