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- Templeton Developing Markets Trust Class A (TEDMX) is a mutual fund managed by Franklin Templeton that seeks long-term capital appreciation through investments primarily in equity securities of companies located in or operating within developing market countries. The fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in such securities, including common and preferred stocks across all market capitalizations—large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap—as well as American Depositary Receipts, Global Depositary Receipts, and European Depositary Receipts; it is classified as non-diversified and benchmarked against the MSCI Emerging Markets Index-NR. Key sectors in its portfolio as of November 30, 2025, include semiconductors and semiconductor equipment (21.63%), banks (16.61%), and technology hardware and equipment (8.49%), with holdings in approximately 88 issuers and total net assets of $1.83 billion. Established on October 16, 1991, with headquarters aligned to Franklin Templeton's global operations in San Mateo, California, the fund benefits from the manager's extensive international presence, including offices in Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Bucharest, Shanghai, Singapore, Mumbai, Cape Town, and Dubai. In recent years, Franklin Templeton, the fund's parent organization, has pursued strategic expansions through acquisitions to bolster its alternatives platform, including the 2024 acquisition of Putnam Investments and the completed acquisition of pan-European private credit manager Apera Asset Management in October 2025, which added over €5 billion in assets under management and increased the firm's global alternative credit AUM to more than $90 billion. These moves enhance Franklin Templeton's capabilities in private credit and direct lending, complementing its emerging markets equity strategies like TEDMX, though no direct changes to the fund's structure, such as fee reductions or new share classes, were reported in 2024 or 2025. The fund continues to emphasize a bottom-up investment approach amid geopolitical tensions and emerging market dynamics, with year-to-date returns of approximately 12.04% as of mid-2025.