Sec Form 13G Filing - GATES BILL & MELINDA FOUNDATION filing for Templeton Emerging Markets Fund (EMF) - 2025-02-14

Insider filing report for Changes in Beneficial Ownership

  • Schedule 13G & 13D forms are used to report a party's ownership of stock which exceeds 5% of a company's total stock issue.
  • Schedule 13G is a shorter version of Schedule 13D with fewer reporting requirements.
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Check the appropriate box to designate the rule pursuant to which this Schedule is filed:
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SCHEDULE 13G



Comment for Type of Reporting Person:  For purposes of Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), all common stock ("Common Stock") of Templeton Emerging Markets Fund (the "Issuer") beneficially owned by Gates Foundation Trust (the "Trust") may be deemed to be beneficially owned by William H. Gates III ("WHG" and together with the Trust, the "Reporting Persons") as Trustee of the Trust. Effective January 6, 2025, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust changed its name to Gates Foundation Trust. As of February 13, 2025, the Trust beneficially owns 1,170,327 shares of Common Stock of the Issuer.Item 11 is based on 15,172,860 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of December 16, 2024, as reported on the Issuer's Schedule 14A filed on January 6, 2025.The Trust, WHG, and Melinda French Gates ("MFG") initially reported their beneficial ownership of the Common Stock of the Issuer on a Schedule 13G, filed on February 13, 2024. As of this amendment, MFG is no longer a reporting person hereunder.


SCHEDULE 13G



Comment for Type of Reporting Person:  The Trust beneficially owns 1,170,327 shares of Common Stock of the Issuer. For purposes of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, all Common Stock beneficially owned by the Trust may be deemed to be beneficially owned by William H. Gates III as Trustee of the Trust.Item 11 is based on 15,172,860 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of December 16, 2024, as reported on the Issuer's Schedule 14A filed on January 6, 2025.


SCHEDULE 13G


 
Gates Foundation Trust
 
Signature:/s/ Alan Heuberger
Name/Title:Alan Heuberger, Attorney-in-fact for the Trustee, William H. Gates III
Date:02/14/2025
 
William H. Gates III
 
Signature:/s/ Alan Heuberger
Name/Title:Alan Heuberger, Attorney-in-fact
Date:02/14/2025

Comments accompanying signature:  Duly authorized under Special Limited Power of Attorney appointing Alan Heuberger attorney-in-fact, dated August 12, 2008, by and on behalf of William H. Gates III as Trustee, filed as Exhibit 99.5 to Cascade Investment, L.L.C.'s Schedule 13D with respect to Grupo Televisa, S.A.B., on May 7, 2009, SEC File No. 005-60431, and incorporated by reference herein.
Exhibit Information

Exhibit 1: Joint Filing Agreement by and between Gates Foundation Trust and William H. Gates III

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