Sir John Marks Templeton (29 November 1912 – 8 July 2008)[1] was an American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist. In 1954, he entered the mutual fund market and created the Templeton Growth Fund,[2] which averaged growth over 15% per year for 38 years.[3] A pioneer of emerging market investing in the 1960s,[4] Money magazine named him "arguably the greatest global stock picker of the century" in 1999.

Guy Spier (born February 4, 1966) is a Zurich-based investor. He is the author of The Education of a Value Investor.[1] Spier is the manager of the Aquamarine Fund with $350 million in assets.[2] He is well known for bidding US$650,100 with Mohnish Pabrai for a charity lunch with Warren Buffett in 2008.[3] In 2009, he was featured in The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande regarding his use of checklists as part of his investment process.

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