John templeton 19 12 was born in Tennessee, and his family was poor. However, with excellent results, he completed his studies at Yale University with a scholarship, and graduated from 1934 with a first-class degree in economics from Yale University. After that, he went on to study at Oxford University, won the Rhodes Scholarship, and obtained the Master of Laws degree at 1936. After returning to America, he worked in Fenner &; Beane works is one of the predecessors of Merrill Lynch today.

Templeton founded his own company-Templeton Dobro &; Vance. 1939, 26-year-old Templeton bought 100 shares of 104 companies with a loan of $0/00. A few years later, the success of 100 companies dug the first bucket of gold for Templeton. The company has achieved considerable success, and its asset scale has rapidly increased to 1 billion, with 8 mutual funds. 1968, the company was renamed Templetonda Mrohs Company and resold. In the same year, Templeton established his own Templeton Growth Fund in Nassau, Bahamas.

In the following 25 years, Templeton founded the largest and most successful Templeton mutual fund group in the world, and sold Templeton Fund to Franklin Group in 1992. From 65438 to 0999, American Money magazine praised Templeton as "the greatest stock picker in the world in this century". During his 70-year career, Mr Templeton founded and led the most successful mutual fund company of that era, with an annual profit of 70 million dollars. His operating methods dazzled Wall Street and made him a famous investor as well as george soros and Peter Lynch.

However, after becoming one of the richest ethnic minorities in the world, Templeton gave up his American citizenship and moved to the Bahamas. Templeton lived in the Bahamas all the year round and naturally became a British citizen, which was favored by Elizabeth II. He was knighted in 1987 in recognition of his achievements. One of his honours is to award the Templeton Prize, which is the richest prize in the world. It is awarded to people who have made outstanding contributions to the faith every year from 1972.

After retirement, he began to be active in various international charitable activities through his john templeton Fund. Starting from 1972, the fund awards people who have made outstanding contributions to humanities research every year, which is not only the richest Templeton Award in the world.

On July 8, 2008, Templeton died in Nassau, Bahamas, where he lived for a long time, at the age of 95. According to a spokesman for the Templeton Foundation, he died of pneumonia.