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Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. slowdown may be shorter than expected and private equity investors should start searching for bargains after valuations tumbled this year, said Mark Mobius, executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management Ltd.

``I just don't see a long, protracted recession,'' Mobius, who manages about $40 billion in emerging market stocks, told the Super Return Asia conference in Hong Kong today. ``There is an opportunity to buy low right now and sell high in the next cycle.''


Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Mark Mobius said he’s “aggressively” buying consumer stocks, including cell-phone companies, retailers, banks and furniture makers, as faster economic growth in China, India, South Africa and Turkey offsets sagging demand from developed nations.

“We see a consumer boom in all of those countries,” Mobius, who oversaw more than $24 billion in emerging-market stocks on Sept. 30 as executive chairman at Templeton Asset Management Ltd., said in a Bloomberg Television interview from Johannesburg. “Per-capita income is growing at a very rapid pace in these countries.”

The slowdown “will be rather short-lived and, of course, the markets will anticipate this,” Singapore-based Mobius said. “There will be some deceleration, but these are still fast- growing countries.”

Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Mark Mobius, who oversees about $26 billion in emerging-market stocks at Templeton Asset Management Ltd., said he plans to buy more shares of consumer and commodities companies in emerging markets.

“Valuations are attractive,” Mobius, Templeton’s executive chairman, said at a briefing in Kuala Lumpur today. “We feel that this year would be a year of recovery of the stock markets in the emerging markets.”

“There is an incredible build-up of foreign reserves in the emerging markets, and the increase in money supply is quite dramatic,” the executive chairman said. “We’ve seen a very big increase of money coming into markets.”

March 23 (Bloomberg) -- The next “bull-market” rally has begun and there are bargains in every emerging market following a record slump in stocks, Templeton Asset Management Ltd.’s Mark Mobius said.

“You have to be careful not to miss the opportunity,” said Mobius, who helps oversee about $20 billion of emerging- market assets as executive chairman at San Mateo, California- based Templeton. “With all the negative news, there is a tendency to hold back.”

(Hey eventually the dude is going to get it right!-AM)