EMF - Templeton Emerging Markets Fund

What this means for you

City of London specializes in closed-end funds trading below the value of their holdings - not a bank or an index fund holding shares for clients - and has told the regulator it is not seeking changes. One other large investor owns more than 5% of this fund and has said the same; that is common for banks, brokers and index funds that hold shares for their clients.

Nothing is required of you. If an investor changes its mind, it must file a new notice within days, and it will show up here.

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What happened, and when

1. May 15, 2026

   State of Wisconsin Investment Board sold down below 5% and stopped reporting.

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2. May 15, 2026

   City of London raised its stake to 23.7% (from 22.3%), as a passive investor.

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3. March 6, 2026

   City of London cut its stake to 22.3% (from 27.9%), as a passive investor.

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4. Feb 25, 2026

   State of Wisconsin Investment Board now owns 6.7%, as a passive investor.

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5. Feb 13, 2026

   1607 Capital sold down below 5% and stopped reporting.

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About this fund

• Run by Templeton Asset Management Ltd. Part of the Franklin Templeton Group of Funds fund family. As of Aug 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
• Size: about $375 million of holdings, as of Aug 31, 2026. As of Aug 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Borrowing: the fund borrows about 4% on top of its own money, as of Aug 31, 2026. Borrowed money makes gains and losses bigger. As of Aug 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Costs: 1.1% a year in management fees; 1.3% a year in total, including interest on borrowed money. Fiscal year ended Aug 31, 2025. As of Aug 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
  Among the 13 funds we follow that invest outside the U.S., 9 charge a lower management fee and 5 charge less in total, at their last yearly reports. Both numbers are measured against the fund's own money, not the money it borrows on top, so a fund that borrows more shows higher costs on both counts.
• Payouts: last fiscal year (ended Aug 31, 2026) the fund paid $1.68 a share. $1.23 of that was income; $0.45 came from gains. Most funds announce their monthly or quarterly payout on their own website, not in a filing with the regulator, so a cut or a raise there does not show up here until the next yearly report. A few funds do file a notice about a fixed payout; those appear under What happened, and when. As of Aug 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Value of holdings per share at the last fiscal year end (Aug 31, 2025): $17.27. The shares traded at $15.27, about 11.6% below that. As of Aug 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
• How the holdings did: down 3.1% over the last three months we have (June-Aug 2026), before the share price is taken into account. As of Aug 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• First reported to the regulator in 1994.

How this has changed

• Payouts per share: $1.68 in the fiscal year ended Aug 31, 2026; $0.95 in the year ended Aug 31, 2025; $0.73 in the year ended Aug 31, 2024.As of Aug 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• None of those payouts was your own money back; all of it was income or gains.As of Aug 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Costs, including interest on borrowed money: 1.34% a year in the fiscal year ended Aug 31, 2026; 1.34% a year in the year ended Aug 31, 2025; 1.43% a year in the year ended Aug 31, 2024.As of Aug 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Size of the holdings: about $375 million at Aug 31, 2026; $258 million at Aug 31, 2025; $226 million at Aug 31, 2024. From the fund's quarterly holdings reports. Original documents: Aug 31, 2026 →, Aug 31, 2025 →, Aug 31, 2024 →.
• Borrowing: about 4% on top of its own money at Aug 31, 2026; 3% at Aug 31, 2025; 3% at Aug 31, 2024. From the fund's quarterly holdings reports. Original documents: Aug 31, 2026 →, Aug 31, 2025 →, Aug 31, 2024 →.
• The fund had about 14.9 million shares at Aug 31, 2026, down 2.3% from Aug 31, 2024.As of Aug 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →

What these lines mean: a payout that is your own money back, what a fund costs, borrowing.

What a holder made

• The year ended Aug 31, 2026: the shares returned +61%, counting payouts; the holdings +58.3%. The holdings figure is what the fund's investments earned, before the share price is taken into account. As of Aug 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Aug 31, 2025: the shares returned +28.3%, counting payouts; the holdings +24.3%. As of Aug 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Aug 31, 2024: the shares returned +16.1%, counting payouts; the holdings +14.5%. As of Aug 31, 2024, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Aug 31, 2023: the shares returned +8.6%, counting payouts; the holdings +8.3%. As of Aug 31, 2023, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Aug 31, 2022: the shares returned -29.2%, counting payouts; the holdings -27.4%. As of Aug 31, 2022, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Those five years together: the shares returned +84.4%. $10,000 of shares bought at the start (Sept 1, 2021) would have become about $18,400 by Aug 31, 2026, with every payout counted, before tax. As of Aug 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The holdings over the last twelve months we have, to Aug 31, 2026: +58.3%. The quarterly reports carry no share price, so this is the holdings alone. As of Aug 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• A past year says nothing about the next one. All figures are the fund's own, from its reports to the regulator.

Why the shares and the holdings can differ: the gap between price and value. Why payouts count: a payout that is your own money back.

What the fund holds

Mostly shares (94%), the rest preferred shares and cash and short-term holdings. About 4% issued in the U.S.

1. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. - 17.3%
2. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. - 9.3%
3. SK Hynix, Inc. - 8.8%
4. MediaTek, Inc. - 3.4%
5. Cash and short-term - 2.9%
6. BYD Co. Ltd. class H shares - 2.7%
7. Prosus NV - 2.6%
8. ICICI Bank Ltd. - 2.4%
9. Lite-On Technology Corp. - 2.3%
10. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. - 2.1%

As of Aug 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →