Despite this eclecticism, explaining his investment philosophy does not come easily to Mr Mobius.
Other investors have said the same thing over the same time frame, though Mobius was first.
In the op-ed, Mobius talks about the long term prospects for growth in the BRIC markets.
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Mark Mobius of Templeton posts to gulfnews.com his thoughts on investing in the big emerging markets.
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Mobius, president of Templeton's Emerging Markets Fund, looks back without a hint of defensiveness.
Mark Mobius of Franklin Templeton and Anthony Bolton of Fidelity did not have their normal stellar years.
Mobius is also bullish on Korea, with the strong yen and the higher 15% foreign ownership ceiling.
The buildings are designed to resemble a giant mobius strip - a continuous loop with only one side.
He describes it as "one surface folded in an endless Mobius band, " or sort of a giant figure 8.
"It's bottoming out or very close to the bottom, " says one-time actor Mobius.
The frontier markets are particularly interesting because of their fast growth, says Mobius, even faster than many other emerging markets.
Mr Mobius travels at least 250 days a year (days in the air, that is) and touches down mainly to exercise in hotel gymnasiums.
Famed money manager Mark Mobius likes Brazil, but says government interventions with major names like Petrobras (PBR) and Vale (VALE) are scaring investors away.
Mobius capitalism, goes the charge, is mobile, fickle, destabilising and unjust.
Mark Mobius, an emerging-markets investor at Franklin Templeton, thinks that analysts are underestimating the potential for recovery and that many markets can surpass 2007 highs.
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EBay also adopted new tools for big-data processing, such as the open-source software framework Hadoop and a system called Mobius that was developed in its labs.
Since Mobius said India was coming out of the doldrums in early July, the Wisdom Tree India Earnings ( EPI) exchange traded fund has gained 10.75%.
Because factories are built to manufacture goods, not conserve energy, "most of corporate America uses 20% more energy than it needs to, " says Mobius partner Richard Palmer.
Templeton's Mobius, who travels the world in search of corporate winners for months on end, has also taken a shine to the fallen markets of South Asia.
Meanwhile, Mobius says the derivatives market today is still so rife with bets made in different directions that major volatility is inevitable and the equity markets will suffer.
Last year, Franklin Templeton Investments emerging-markets guru Mark Mobius started finding bargains in Middle East countries like Egypt and Dubai, but these scarcely figure in the typical emerging-markets fund.
Cheaper alternatives are the three-wheeled Tuk-Tuk by Piaggio or the Haojin motorbike but Mobius wants the sweet spot in the middle, with a price comparable to the auto rickshaw.
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As if to demonstrate that capital is mobile, Mr Mobius has no permanent residence in the conventional sense (he owns flats in Germany, Singapore and elsewhere mainly for investment purposes).
Emerging-markets maestro Mark Mobius of Franklin Templeton Investment Management certainly likes Japan -- the only stock market he and share bear Marc "Dr. Doom" Faber picked as a winner this year.
The business of Epix is a weird Mobius strip, but it's one that may help the channel survive through what Greenberg says is a posturing period by chief executives looking for Epix to lower its price.
Publicly disclosable details about the future of Windows Mobile are still sparse, but we can let the door open a bit wider on what was shown at this year's Mobius with regard to the next two versions of Windows Mobile.
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He didn't suggest that Thailand might rebound toward the end of 1997, like Templeton International's Mark Mobius, or that Korea's economy had bottomed out in February, like the Korea Asia Fund's Park Jae Man, or that Jakarta stocks in May represented one of the better growth opportunities in Asia, like Stuart Winchester of Dresdner RCM Global Investors.
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