Emerging from Mobius’ shadow

SINGAPORE (Feb 17): In 1982, Stephen Dover was a student in China living through Deng Xiaoping’s opening-up of the economy.

“I got some type of bug or excitement, at that point, about the possibility of what this country and Asia could be,” he tells The Edge Singapore in an interview. “So, my dream was to figure out some way to work with China [in] what was then called the Third World.”

Today, Dover is living that dream. He is managing director and international chief investment officer of Franklin Templeton Companies, which manages over US$720 billion ($1.02 trillion) worth of assets worldwide. And last year, he took over the role of CIO for Templeton Emerging Markets Group from iconic EM fund manager Mark Mobius.

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