{"id":8068,"date":"2008-07-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"legendary-investor-templeton-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2008\/legendary-investor-templeton-dies.html","title":{"rendered":"Legendary investor Templeton dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters- John Templeton, a pioneering mutual fund manager, global investor and billionaire philanthropist, died of pneumonia in a hospital in the Bahamas on Tuesday, a spokeswoman at his foundation said. He was 95.       <\/p>\n<p>Templeton, who started his career on Wall Street in 1937, created several successful international funds before selling Templeton Funds in 1992 to Franklin Resources for $440 million (223 million pounds) in what was then the largest acquisition of an independent mutual fund company.<\/p>\n<p>       He remained deeply involved in his business until he was nearly 80, when he shifted focus to philanthropy. &quot;People keep noticing that I&#8217;m 79 years old, and ask me what would happen if I would die,&quot; he told Reuters in an interview in 1992 while negotiating the sale of his firm<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~4\/330622791\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"..\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~3\/330622791\/idUKZWE93349520080709\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~3\/330622791\/idUKZWE93349520080709\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters- John Templeton, a pioneering mutual fund manager, global investor and billionaire philanthropist, died of pneumonia in a hospital in the Bahamas on Tuesday, a spokeswoman at his foundation said. He was 95. Templeton, who started his career on Wall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1377,552,1380,1376,117,147,1379,146,1378],"class_list":["post-8068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-accounting-solution","tag-alignment","tag-glee","tag-goldfish-bowl","tag-investment-arm","tag-journalism","tag-management-strategies","tag-person-team","tag-share-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}