EMF SEC Filing News — Templeton Emerging Markets Fund

Latest SEC filings for Templeton Emerging Markets Fund (EMF) explained in plain English. Covers insider buying and selling (Form 4), proposed insider sales (Form 144), material company events (8-K), and quarterly & annual reports (10-Q / 10-K). StrongBuyAnalytics provides navigation and brief excerpts or summaries; original filings remain at the SEC/source links and were authored by their filers, not StrongBuyAnalytics. Filing dates shown are source dates. Coverage and detection can be delayed or incomplete because of SEC availability, amendments, parsing, caching, or outages. Latest source filing date shown: 2018-05-03.

Templeton Emerging Markets Fund is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched by Franklin Resources Inc. The fund is managed by Templeton Asset Management Ltd. It invests in the public equity markets of emerging market countries across the globe. The fund seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. It primarily invests in value stocks of companies. The fund employs fundamental analysis with a focus on such factors as long-term earnings, asset value, and cash flow…
Sector: Financial Services Industry: Asset Management Market Cap: $318.2M CIK: 809708
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Total Filings
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Bullish Classifications
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Bearish Classifications
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Insider Transactions
0
Material Events (8-K)
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Periodic Reports
Rule-based classifications for EMF currently lean bullish. Of the 4 displayed SEC filing records, 4 carry bullish classifications versus 0 bearish classifications. These labels summarize filing attributes; they are not recommendations, probabilities, or evidence of future price direction. There were 4 insider transactions (Form 4) in this period.
EMF Filing Activity Snapshot 2011-01-03 — 2018-05-03
Insider Transactions (Form 4)
4 buys vs 0 sells
Net insider buying in this period — more purchases than sales reported.
Largest Form 144 Filing
$50.5K
Torre Bates Ann (Insider) · 2018-05-03
3,200 shares · Form 4
Insider Transactions 4 · Forms 3, 4 and 5

A Form 4 is filed within two business days of a company insider — an officer, a director, or a holder of more than ten percent of the stock — changing their position in the shares. All 4 filings in this group are Form 4s for Templeton Emerging Markets Fund.

The difficulty with reading these filings as a group is that a single form type covers transactions that mean entirely different things. An executive spending their own money to buy stock and an executive having shares withheld to pay tax on a vesting grant both appear as a Form 4. Every filing below is therefore tagged with the nature of the underlying transaction, taken from the transaction code reported on the form itself.

Across the 4 insider filings shown, the breakdown is 4 open-market purchase. 4 of them involved a discretionary open-market trade; the rest are compensation and administrative mechanics.

What each transaction type means

Open-market purchase ×4
The insider bought shares on the open market with their own money. This is the only Form 4 category that requires a discretionary cash outlay at the prevailing price.
Form 4 Open-market purchase Insider Buying 2018-05-03

EMF insider Torre Bates Ann (Insider) bought 3,200 shares (~$50.5K)

Torre Bates Ann, listed as Insider at TEMPLETON EMERGING MARKETS FUND, reported an open-market purchase of 3,200 EMF shares in a Form 4 filing. Insider buying is often treated as a bullish signal because company insiders are committing their own capital.

The insider bought shares on the open market with their own money. This is the only Form 4 category that requires a discretionary cash outlay at the prevailing price.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code Nature Shares Price Value
P Open-market purchase 1,500 $15.79 $23.7K
P Open-market purchase 900 $15.78 $14.2K
P Open-market purchase 500 $15.70 $7.8K
P Open-market purchase 200 $15.74 $3.1K
P Open-market purchase 100 $15.69 $1.6K
Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Torre Bates Ann (Insider) Shares: 3,200 Est. Value: $50.5K
View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →
Form 4 Open-market purchase Insider Buying 2016-12-12

EMF insider Thompson Larry D. (Insider) bought 827 shares (~$10.1K)

Thompson Larry D., listed as Insider at TEMPLETON EMERGING MARKETS FUND, reported an open-market purchase of 827 EMF shares in a Form 4 filing. Insider buying is often treated as a bullish signal because company insiders are committing their own capital.

The insider bought shares on the open market with their own money. This is the only Form 4 category that requires a discretionary cash outlay at the prevailing price.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code Nature Shares Price Value
P Open-market purchase 827 $12.18 $10.1K
Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Thompson Larry D. (Insider) Shares: 827 Est. Value: $10.1K
View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →
Form 4 Open-market purchase Insider Buying 2011-03-17

EMF insider HOLIDAY EDITH E (Insider) bought 113 shares (~$2.5K)

HOLIDAY EDITH E, listed as Insider at TEMPLETON EMERGING MARKETS FUND, reported an open-market purchase of 113 EMF shares in a Form 4 filing. Insider buying is often treated as a bullish signal because company insiders are committing their own capital.

The insider bought shares on the open market with their own money. This is the only Form 4 category that requires a discretionary cash outlay at the prevailing price.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code Nature Shares Price Value
P Open-market purchase 113 $22.07 $2.5K
Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: HOLIDAY EDITH E (Insider) Shares: 113 Est. Value: $2.5K
View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →
Form 4 Open-market purchase Insider Buying 2011-01-03

EMF insider LUTTIG J MICHAEL (Insider) bought 1,000 shares (~$16.4K)

LUTTIG J MICHAEL, listed as Insider at TEMPLETON EMERGING MARKETS FUND, reported an open-market purchase of 1,000 EMF shares in a Form 4 filing. Insider buying is often treated as a bullish signal because company insiders are committing their own capital.

The insider bought shares on the open market with their own money. This is the only Form 4 category that requires a discretionary cash outlay at the prevailing price.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code Nature Shares Price Value
P Open-market purchase 1,000 $16.43 $16.4K
Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: LUTTIG J MICHAEL (Insider) Shares: 1,000 Est. Value: $16.4K
View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

How we classify Templeton Emerging Markets Fund's filings

Straight from EDGAR

Each displayed record links to an original source document. StrongBuyAnalytics provides navigation and brief excerpts or summaries, not the filing itself. Parsing may omit context or contain errors, so read the original document in full.

Transaction codes, not guesswork

The nature shown on each insider filing comes from the transaction code the filer entered on the form itself — P for an open-market purchase, A for a compensation award, F for shares withheld to pay tax, M for an option exercise. Where one filing contains several codes, the transaction table lists them line by line.

Why the distinction matters

Insider activity is routinely summarised as buying or selling, which flattens together decisions that mean very different things. Shares withheld for tax on a vesting grant are an automatic administrative step; shares bought on the open market are someone committing their own money at the current price.

What this page does not tell you

A filing records what happened, not why. Form 4 does not always disclose whether a sale was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plan, and no single filing is a basis for a decision on EMF. Read these alongside the fundamentals rather than in isolation.

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