Mark Mobius

Joseph Bernhard Mark Mobius (17 August 1936 – 15 April 2026) was an American-born German emerging markets fund manager and founder of Mobius Capital Partners LLP. He was previously employed at Franklin Templeton where he ran the Templeton Emerging Markets Group for over three decades.

Early life and education Joseph Bernhard Mark Mobius was born to German and Puerto Rican parents in New York State on 17 August 1936.

Career Mobius worked at international securities firm Vickers, da Costa, and later was president of the International Investment Trust Company in Taipei, Taiwan. He also once ran an independent consulting company that marketed, among other things, Snoopy cartoon merchandise.

He joined Franklin Templeton in 1987 after being asked by John Templeton to run the Templeton Emerging Markets Group,

In 2015, after leading the company for over a quarter of a century, Mobius decided to step down as the lead manager of the Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (TEMIT) and handed over control of the fund to Carlos Hardenberg.

In 2018, Franklin Templeton announced Mobius's retirement from Franklin Templeton effective 31 January 2018.

In March 2018, Mobius launched Mobius Capital Partners together with his former Templeton colleagues Carlos von Hardenberg and Greg Konieczny. The emerging and frontier markets asset manager is focused on a single long-only strategy based on actively partnering with portfolio companies to improve their corporate governance and to deliver a clear ESG pathway.

Personal life and death Born a U.S. citizen, Mobius was also entitled to German citizenship by descent. He renounced his U.S. citizenship while living his life as a German citizen.

Mobius stated his preference for a Donald Trump victory in the 2020 United States Presidential election and called a potential win by the Biden–Harris ticket "disastrous" for the stock market and economy.

On 2 March 2023, Mobius told Fox Business in an interview that he could not take his money out of China due to the country's capital controls. He also said that he would be "very, very careful" investing in the country. According to the South China Morning Post, Mobius had sold a flat in Shanghai 18 years ago and deposited the money at a Shanghai branch of HSBC. When he tried to transfer 3 million yuan ($432,270) to a HSBC Hong Kong account, he was asked to submit an extensive list of documents related to the sale and taxation records which delayed the process.