Mark Mobius announces plans for EM fund, joins India-based Equanimity

Investment guru Mark Mobius said he is starting a fund management firm which will invest in emerging and frontier market companies focused on ESG ideas

Investment guru Mark Mobius said on Monday he is starting a fund management firm which will invest in emerging and frontier market companies focused on environmental, social and governance (ESG) ideas.

Mobius, 81, one of the most prominent voices on emerging market investments, retired from Franklin Templeton Investments this January after three decades at the firm. (Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint)

The fund will be an open-ended long-only one.

The fund management firm will be Luxembourg- and London-based.

Mobius has also joined Mumbai-based Equanimity Investments’s investment committee, where he has been an investor, along with managing partner Rajesh Sehgal.

India-based Equanimity is a venture capital fund that invests in early-stage businesses.

Equanimity is a sector-agnostic fund which invests in early-stage companies, which use technology as their backbone.

Mobius, 81, one of the most prominent voices on emerging market investments, retired from Franklin Templeton Investments this January after three decades at the firm.