497

102 P1 09/18

SUPPLEMENT DATED SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

TO THE PROSPECTUS DATED JANUARY 1, 2018

OF

TEMPLETON FUNDS

Templeton World Fund

The prospectus is amended as follows:

I.  The following replaces the “Shareholder Fees” and “Example” tables in the “Fund Summary – Fees and Expenses of the Fund” section of the prospectus:

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)

	Class A1	Class C2	Class R6	Advisor Class
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as percentage of offering price)	5.50%	None	None	None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as percentage of the lower of original purchase price or sale proceeds)	None	1.00%	None	None

1. There is a 1% contingent deferred sales charge that applies to investments of $1 million or more (see "Investments of $1 Million or More" under "Choosing a Share Class") and purchases by certain retirement plans without an initial sales charge on shares sold within 18 months of purchase.

2. Effective October 5, 2018, Class C shares that have been held for 10 years or more will convert automatically into Class A shares later in the month of October 2018 and will be subject to Class A shares’ lower Rule 12b-1 fees. Thereafter, Class C shares of the Fund will convert automatically to Class A shares of the Fund on a monthly basis in the month of, or the month following, the 10-year anniversary of the Class C shares’ purchase date.  Such conversions will be on the basis of the relative net asset values of the two classes, will not be subject to Class A shares’ sales charges and are not expected to be a taxable event for federal income tax purposes.  Certain shares that are invested through retirement plans, omnibus accounts or in certain other instances may not automatically convert if the financial intermediary does not have the ability to track purchases to credit individual shareholders’ holding periods.  (See “Your Account – Choosing a Shares Class – Sales Charges – Class C – Automatic Conversion of Class C Shares to Class A Shares After 10-Year Holding Period” for more information.)

Example

	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Class A	$ 651	$ 866	$ 1,098	$ 1,762
Class C	$ 283	$ 566	$ 975	$ 2,116
Class R6	$ 76	$ 237	$ 411	$ 918
Advisor Class	$ 82	$ 255	$ 444	$ 990
If you do not sell your shares:
Class C	$ 183	$ 566	$ 975	$ 2,116

II.  The following is added to the “Fund Summary – Performance” section of the prospectus:

The figures in the average annual total returns table above reflect the Class A maximum front-end sales charge of 5.75% that was in effect prior to September 10, 2018.  Class A shares, however, currently are subject to a maximum front-end sales charge of 5.50% effective on September 10, 2018.  If the maximum front-end sales charge of 5.50% was reflected, performance for Class A in the average annual total returns table would be higher.

III. The “Fund Summary – Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares” section is replaced with the following:

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares

You may purchase or redeem shares of the Fund on any business day online through our website at franklintempleton.com, by mail (Franklin Templeton Investor Services, P.O. Box 33030, St. Petersburg, FL 33733-8030), or by telephone at (800) 632‑2301. For Class A and C, the minimum initial purchase for most accounts is $1,000 (or $25 under an automatic investment plan). Class R6 and Advisor Class are only available to certain qualified investors and the minimum initial investment will vary depending on the type of qualified investor, as described under “Your Account — Choosing a Share Class — Qualified Investors — Class R6” and “— Advisor Class” in the Fund’s prospectus. There is no minimum investment for subsequent purchases.

IV. The first chart under the “Your Account – Choosing a Share Class” section of the prospectus is replaced with the following:

Class A	Class C	Class R6	Advisor Class
Initial sales charge of 5.50% or less	No initial sales charge	See "Qualified Investors - Class R6" below	See "Qualified Investors - Advisor Class" below
Deferred sales charge of 1% on purchases of $1 million or more sold within 18 months	Deferred sales charge of 1% on shares you sell within 12 months
Lower annual expenses than Class C due to lower distribution fees	Higher annual expenses than Class A due to higher distribution fees.  Automatic conversion to Class A shares after approximately ten years, reducing future annual expenses.

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V. The first chart under the “Your Account – Choosing a Share Class – Class A & C – Sales Charges – Class A” section of the prospectus is replaced with the following:

when you invest this amount	the sales charge makes up this % of the offering price1	which equals this % of your net investment1
Under $50,000	5.50%	5.82%
$50,000 but under $100,000	4.50%	4.71%
$100,000 but under $250,000	3.50%	3.63%
$250,000 but under $500,000	2.50%	2.56%
$500,000 but under $1 million	2.00%	2.04%

1. The dollar amount of the sales charge is the difference between the offering price of the shares purchased (which factors in the applicable sales charge in this table) and the net asset value of those shares. Since the offering price is calculated to two decimal places using standard rounding criteria, the number of shares purchased and the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and of your net investment may be higher or lower depending on whether there was a downward or upward rounding.

VI. The following is added to the “Your Account – Choosing a Shares Class – Sales Charges - Class A – Sales Charge Waivers – Waivers for certain investors” section:

•  Class C shareholders whose shares are converted to Class A shares after 10 years under the Class C shares’ conversion feature.

VII. The “Notice of Automatic Conversion of Class C Shares to Class A Shares after 10-Year Holding Period” section under the “Your Account” section of the prospectus is removed and the following is added after the “Your Account – Choosing a Shares Class – Sales Charges – Class C – Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees” section:

Automatic Conversion of Class C Shares to Class A Shares After 10-Year Holding Period

Effective on October 5, 2018, Class C shares’ conversion feature will become effective.  The conversion feature provides that Class C shares that have been held for 10 years or more will automatically convert into Class A shares and will be subject to Class A shares’ lower Rule 12b-1 fees (the “Conversion Feature”). On or about October 19, 2018, Class C shares of the Fund that have been outstanding for 10 years or more will automatically convert to Class A shares of the Fund on the basis of the relative net asset values of the two classes.  Thereafter, Class C shares of the Fund will convert automatically to Class A shares of the Fund on a monthly basis in the month of, or the month following, the 10-year anniversary of the Class C (or Class C1) shares’ purchase date.  The monthly conversion date is expected to occur around the middle of every month and generally falls on a Friday.

Terms of the Conversion Feature.  Class C shares that automatically convert to Class A shares of the Fund will convert on the basis of the relative net asset values of the two classes.  Shareholders will not pay a sales charge, including a CDSC, upon the conversion of their Class C shares to Class A shares pursuant to the Conversion Feature. The automatic conversion of the Fund’s Class C shares into Class A shares after the 10-year holding period is not expected to be a taxable event for federal income tax purposes. Shareholders should consult with their tax advisor regarding the state and local tax consequences of such conversions.

If you previously owned Class C1 shares of the Fund, the time you held such shares will count towards the 10-year period for automatic conversion to Class A shares. Class C (or Class C1) shares of the Fund acquired through automatic reinvestment of dividends or distributions will convert to Class A shares of the Fund on the conversion date pro rata with the converting Class C shares of the Fund that were not acquired through reinvestment of dividends or distributions. 

Class C shares held through a financial intermediary in an omnibus account will be automatically converted into Class A shares only if the intermediary can document that the shareholder has met the required holding period. In certain circumstances, when shares are invested through retirement plans, omnibus accounts, and in certain other instances, the Fund and its agents may not have transparency into how long a shareholder has held Class C (or Class C1) shares for purposes of determining whether such Class C shares are eligible for automatic conversion into Class A shares and the financial intermediary may not have the ability to track purchases to credit individual shareholders’ holding periods.  This primarily occurs when shares are invested through certain record keepers for group retirement plans, where the intermediary cannot track share aging at the participant level.  In these circumstances, the Fund will not be able to automatically convert Class C shares into Class A shares as described above. In order to determine eligibility for conversion in these circumstances, it is the responsibility of the shareholder or their financial intermediary to notify the Fund that the shareholder is eligible for the conversion of Class C shares to Class A shares, and the shareholder or their financial intermediary may be required to maintain and provide the Fund with records that substantiate the holding period of Class C (and, if applicable, Class C1) shares. In these circumstances, it is the financial intermediary’s (and not the Fund’s) responsibility to keep records and to ensure that the shareholder is credited with the proper holding period. Please consult with your financial intermediary about your shares’ eligibility for this conversion feature. 

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Also effective October 5, 2018, new accounts or plans may not be eligible to purchase Class C shares of the Fund if it is determined that the intermediary cannot track shareholder holding periods to determine whether a shareholder’s Class C shares are eligible for conversion to Class A shares.  Accounts or plans (and their successor, related and affiliated plans) that have Class C (or Class C1) shares of the Fund available to participants on or before October 5, 2018, may continue to open accounts for new participants in that share class and purchase additional shares in existing participant accounts.  The Fund has no responsibility for overseeing, monitoring or implementing a financial intermediary’s process for determining whether a shareholder meets the required holding period for conversion.

A financial intermediary may sponsor and/or control accounts, programs or platforms that impose a different conversion schedule or different eligibility requirements for the conversion of Class C shares into Class A shares. In these cases, Class C shareholders may convert to Class A shares under the policies of the financial intermediary and the conversion may be structured as an exchange of Class C shares for Class A shares of the Fund. Financial intermediaries will be responsible for making such exchanges in those circumstances. Please consult with your financial intermediary if you have any questions regarding your shares’ conversion from Class C shares to Class A shares.

VIII. The following replaces the first sentence in the “Your Account – Choosing a Shares Class – Reinstatement Privilege” section:

If you sell any class of shares of a Franklin Templeton Investments fund, you may reinvest all or a portion of the proceeds from that sale within 90 days within the same share class (or share class equivalent if the share class you redeemed from is closed to new investors) without an initial sales charge.

IX. The following is added to the “Your Account – Exchanging Shares – Exchange Privilege” section:

Exchange Effects on Class C Conversion Feature.  Effective October 5, 2018, if you exchange your Class C shares for the same class of shares of another Franklin Templeton fund, the time your shares are held in the initial Fund will count towards the 10-year period for automatic conversion to Class A shares.

X. The following replaces the first paragraph under the “Your Account – Account Policies – Calculating Share Price – Class A & C” section of the prospectus:

When you buy shares, you pay the "offering price" for the shares. The "offering price" is determined by dividing the NAV per share by an amount equal to 1 minus the sales charge applicable to the purchase (expressed in decimals), calculated to two decimal places using standard rounding criteria. The number of Fund shares you will be issued will equal the amount invested divided by the applicable offering price for those shares, calculated to three decimal places using standard rounding criteria. For example, if the NAV per share is $10.25 and the applicable sales charge for the purchase is 5.50%, the offering price would be calculated as follows: 10.25 divided by 1.00 minus 0.055 [10.25/0.945] equals 10.582011, which, when rounded to two decimal points, equals 10.58. The offering price per share would be $10.58.

XI. The following replaces the chart under the “Your Account – Account Policies – Dealer Compensation – Class A & C” section of the prospectus:

	Class A	Class C
Commission (%)	—	1.001
Investment under $50,000	5.00	—
$50,000 but under $100,000	4.00	—
$100,000 but under $250,000	3.00	—
$250,000 but under $500,000	2.25	—
$500,000 but under $1 million	1.75	—
$1 million or more	up to 1.00	—
12b-1 fee to dealer	0.252	1.003

1. Commission includes advance of the first year's 0.25% 12b-1 service fee. Distributors may pay a prepaid commission. However, Distributors does not pay a prepaid commission on any purchases by Employer Sponsored Retirement Plans.

2. For purchases at NAV where Distributors paid a prepaid commission, dealers may start to receive the 12b-1 fee in the 13th month after purchase. For purchases at NAV where Distributors did not pay a prepaid commission, dealers may start to receive the 12b-1 fee at the time of purchase.

3. Dealers may be eligible to receive up to 0.25% at the time of purchase and may be eligible to receive 1% starting in the 13th month. During the first 12 months, the full 12b-1 fee will be paid to Distributors to partially offset the commission and the prepaid service fee paid at the time of purchase. For purchases at NAV where Distributors did not pay a prepaid commission, dealers may start to receive the 12b-1 fee at the time of purchase.  After approximately 10 years, Class C shares convert to Class A shares and dealers may then be eligible to receive the 12b-1 fee applicable to Class A.

Please keep this supplement with your prospectus for future reference.

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104 P1 09/18

SUPPLEMENT DATED SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

TO THE PROSPECTUS DATED JANUARY 1, 2018

OF

TEMPLETON FUNDS

Templeton Foreign Fund

The prospectus is amended as follows:

I.  The following replaces the “Shareholder Fees” and “Example” tables in the “Fund Summary – Fees and Expenses of the Fund” section of the prospectus:

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)

	Class A1	Class C2	Class R	Class R6	Advisor Class
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as percentage of offering price)	5.50%	None	None	None	None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as percentage of the lower of original purchase price or sale proceeds)	None	1.00%	None	None	None

1. There is a 1% contingent deferred sales charge that applies to investments of $1 million or more (see "Investments of $1 Million or More" under "Choosing a Share Class") and purchases by certain retirement plans without an initial sales charge on shares sold within 18 months of purchase.

2. Effective October 5, 2018, Class C shares that have been held for 10 years or more will convert automatically into Class A shares later in the month of October 2018 and will be subject to Class A shares’ lower Rule 12b-1 fees. Thereafter, Class C shares of the Fund will convert automatically to Class A shares of the Fund on a monthly basis in the month of, or the month following, the 10-year anniversary of the Class C shares’ purchase date.  Such conversions will be on the basis of the relative net asset values of the two classes, will not be subject to Class A shares’ sales charges and are not expected to be a taxable event for federal income tax purposes.  Certain shares that are invested through retirement plans, omnibus accounts or in certain other instances may not automatically convert if the financial intermediary does not have the ability to track purchases to credit individual shareholders’ holding periods.  (See “Your Account – Choosing a Shares Class – Sales Charges – Class C – Automatic Conversion of Class C Shares to Class A Shares After 10-Year Holding Period” for more information.)

Example

	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Class A	$ 656	$ 899	$ 1,160	$ 1,906
Class C	$ 288	$ 600	$ 1,039	$ 2,257
Class R	$ 137	$ 447	$ 778	$ 1,716
Class R6	$ 66	$ 228	$ 403	$ 910
Advisor Class	$ 87	$ 291	$ 511	$ 1,146
If you do not sell your shares:
Class C	$ 188	$ 600	$ 1,039	$ 2,257

II.  The following is added to the “Fund Summary – Performance” section of the prospectus:

The figures in the average annual total returns table above reflect the Class A maximum front-end sales charge of 5.75% that was in effect prior to September 10, 2018.  Class A shares, however, currently are subject to a maximum front-end sales charge of 5.50% effective on September 10, 2018.  If the maximum front-end sales charge of 5.50% was reflected, performance for Class A in the average annual total returns table would be higher.

III. The “Fund Summary – Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares” section is replaced with the following:

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares

You may purchase or redeem shares of the Fund on any business day online through our website at franklintempleton.com, by mail (Franklin Templeton Investor Services, P.O. Box 33030, St. Petersburg, FL 33733-8030), or by telephone at (800) 632‑2301. For Class A, C and R, the minimum initial purchase for most accounts is $1,000 (or $25 under an automatic investment plan). Class R6 and Advisor Class are only available to certain qualified investors and the minimum initial investment will vary depending on the type of qualified investor, as described under “Your Account — Choosing a Share Class — Qualified Investors — Class R6” and “— Advisor Class” in the Fund’s prospectus. There is no minimum investment for subsequent purchases.

IV. The first chart under the “Your Account – Choosing a Share Class” section of the prospectus is replaced with the following:

Class A	Class C	Class R	Class R6	Advisor Class
Initial sales charge of 5.50% or less	No initial sales charge	No initial sales charge	See "Qualified Investors - Class R6" below	See "Qualified Investors - Advisor Class" below
Deferred sales charge of 1% on purchases of $1 million or more sold within 18 months	Deferred sales charge of 1% on shares you sell within 12 months	Deferred sales charge is not applicable
Lower annual expenses than Class C or R due to lower distribution fees	Higher annual expenses than Class A due to higher distribution fees.  Automatic conversion to Class A shares after approximately ten years, reducing future annual expenses.	Higher annual expenses than Class A due to higher distribution fees (lower than Class C).  No conversion to Class A shares, so annual expenses do not decrease.

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V. The first chart under the “Your Account – Choosing a Share Class – Class A, C & R – Sales Charges – Class A” section of the prospectus is replaced with the following:

when you invest this amount	the sales charge makes up this % of the offering price1	which equals this % of your net investment1
Under $50,000	5.50%	5.82%
$50,000 but under $100,000	4.50%	4.71%
$100,000 but under $250,000	3.50%	3.63%
$250,000 but under $500,000	2.50%	2.56%
$500,000 but under $1 million	2.00%	2.04%

1. The dollar amount of the sales charge is the difference between the offering price of the shares purchased (which factors in the applicable sales charge in this table) and the net asset value of those shares. Since the offering price is calculated to two decimal places using standard rounding criteria, the number of shares purchased and the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and of your net investment may be higher or lower depending on whether there was a downward or upward rounding.

VI. The following is added to the “Your Account – Choosing a Shares Class – Sales Charges - Class A – Sales Charge Waivers – Waivers for certain investors” section:

•  Class C shareholders whose shares are converted to Class A shares after 10 years under the Class C shares’ conversion feature.

VII. The “Notice of Automatic Conversion of Class C Shares to Class A Shares after 10-Year Holding Period” section under the “Your Account” section of the prospectus is removed and the following is added after the “Your Account – Choosing a Shares Class – Sales Charges – Class C – Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees” section:

Automatic Conversion of Class C Shares to Class A Shares After 10-Year Holding Period

Effective on October 5, 2018, Class C shares’ conversion feature will become effective.  The conversion feature provides that Class C shares that have been held for 10 years or more will automatically convert into Class A shares and will be subject to Class A shares’ lower Rule 12b-1 fees (the “Conversion Feature”). On or about October 19, 2018, Class C shares of the Fund that have been outstanding for 10 years or more will automatically convert to Class A shares of the Fund on the basis of the relative net asset values of the two classes.  Thereafter, Class C shares of the Fund will convert automatically to Class A shares of the Fund on a monthly basis in the month of, or the month following, the 10-year anniversary of the Class C (or Class C1) shares’ purchase date.  The monthly conversion date is expected to occur around the middle of every month and generally falls on a Friday.

Terms of the Conversion Feature.  Class C shares that automatically convert to Class A shares of the Fund will convert on the basis of the relative net asset values of the two classes.  Shareholders will not pay a sales charge, including a CDSC, upon the conversion of their Class C shares to Class A shares pursuant to the Conversion Feature. The automatic conversion of the Fund’s Class C shares into Class A shares after the 10-year holding period is not expected to be a taxable event for federal income tax purposes. Shareholders should consult with their tax advisor regarding the state and local tax consequences of such conversions.

If you previously owned Class C1 shares of the Fund, the time you held such shares will count towards the 10-year period for automatic conversion to Class A shares. Class C (or Class C1) shares of the Fund acquired through automatic reinvestment of dividends or distributions will convert to Class A shares of the Fund on the conversion date pro rata with the converting Class C shares of the Fund that were not acquired through reinvestment of dividends or distributions. 

Class C shares held through a financial intermediary in an omnibus account will be automatically converted into Class A shares only if the intermediary can document that the shareholder has met the required holding period. In certain circumstances, when shares are invested through retirement plans, omnibus accounts, and in certain other instances, the Fund and its agents may not have transparency into how long a shareholder has held Class C (or Class C1) shares for purposes of determining whether such Class C shares are eligible for automatic conversion into Class A shares and the financial intermediary may not have the ability to track purchases to credit individual shareholders’ holding periods.  This primarily occurs when shares are invested through certain record keepers for group retirement plans, where the intermediary cannot track share aging at the participant level.  In these circumstances, the Fund will not be able to automatically convert Class C shares into Class A shares as described above. In order to determine eligibility for conversion in these circumstances, it is the responsibility of the shareholder or their financial intermediary to notify the Fund that the shareholder is eligible for the conversion of Class C shares to Class A shares, and the shareholder or their financial intermediary may be required to maintain and provide the Fund with records that substantiate the holding period of Class C (and, if applicable, Class C1) shares. In these circumstances, it is the financial intermediary’s (and not the Fund’s) responsibility to keep records and to ensure that the shareholder is credited with the proper holding period. Please consult with your financial intermediary about your shares’ eligibility for this conversion feature. 

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Also effective October 5, 2018, new accounts or plans may not be eligible to purchase Class C shares of the Fund if it is determined that the intermediary cannot track shareholder holding periods to determine whether a shareholder’s Class C shares are eligible for conversion to Class A shares.  Accounts or plans (and their successor, related and affiliated plans) that have Class C (or Class C1) shares of the Fund available to participants on or before October 5, 2018, may continue to open accounts for new participants in that share class and purchase additional shares in existing participant accounts.  The Fund has no responsibility for overseeing, monitoring or implementing a financial intermediary’s process for determining whether a shareholder meets the required holding period for conversion.

A financial intermediary may sponsor and/or control accounts, programs or platforms that impose a different conversion schedule or different eligibility requirements for the conversion of Class C shares into Class A shares. In these cases, Class C shareholders may convert to Class A shares under the policies of the financial intermediary and the conversion may be structured as an exchange of Class C shares for Class A shares of the Fund. Financial intermediaries will be responsible for making such exchanges in those circumstances. Please consult with your financial intermediary if you have any questions regarding your shares’ conversion from Class C shares to Class A shares.

VIII. The following replaces the first sentence in the “Your Account – Choosing a Shares Class – Reinstatement Privilege” section:

If you sell any class of shares of a Franklin Templeton Investments fund, you may reinvest all or a portion of the proceeds from that sale within 90 days within the same share class (or share class equivalent if the share class you redeemed from is closed to new investors) without an initial sales charge.

IX. The following is added to the “Your Account – Exchanging Shares – Exchange Privilege” section:

Exchange Effects on Class C Conversion Feature.  Effective October 5, 2018, if you exchange your Class C shares for the same class of shares of another Franklin Templeton fund, the time your shares are held in the initial Fund will count towards the 10-year period for automatic conversion to Class A shares.

X. The following replaces the first paragraph under the “Your Account – Account Policies – Calculating Share Price – Class A & C” section of the prospectus:

When you buy shares, you pay the "offering price" for the shares. The "offering price" is determined by dividing the NAV per share by an amount equal to 1 minus the sales charge applicable to the purchase (expressed in decimals), calculated to two decimal places using standard rounding criteria. The number of Fund shares you will be issued will equal the amount invested divided by the applicable offering price for those shares, calculated to three decimal places using standard rounding criteria. For example, if the NAV per share is $10.25 and the applicable sales charge for the purchase is 5.50%, the offering price would be calculated as follows: 10.25 divided by 1.00 minus 0.055 [10.25/0.945] equals 10.582011, which, when rounded to two decimal points, equals 10.58. The offering price per share would be $10.58.

XI. The following replaces the chart under the “Your Account – Account Policies – Dealer Compensation – Class A, C & R” section of the prospectus:

	Class A	Class C	Class R
Commission (%)	—	1.001	—
Investment under $50,000	5.00	—	—
$50,000 but under $100,000	4.00	—	—
$100,000 but under $250,000	3.00	—	—
$250,000 but under $500,000	2.25	—	—
$500,000 but under $1 million	1.75	—	—
$1 million or more	up to 1.00	—	—
12b-1 fee to dealer	0.252,3	1.004	0.50

1. Commission includes advance of the first year's 0.25% 12b-1 service fee. Distributors may pay a prepaid commission. However, Distributors does not pay a prepaid commission on any purchases by Employer Sponsored Retirement Plans.

2. For purchases at NAV where Distributors paid a prepaid commission, dealers may start to receive the 12b-1 fee in the 13th month after purchase. For purchases at NAV where Distributors did not pay a prepaid commission, dealers may start to receive the 12b-1 fee at the time of purchase.

3. Under the Distribution Plan for Class A, the Fund may pay up to 0.25% to Distributors or others out of which 0.05% generally will be retained by Distributors for its distribution expenses.

4. Dealers may be eligible to receive up to 0.25% at the time of purchase and may be eligible to receive 1% starting in the 13th month. During the first 12 months, the full 12b-1 fee will be paid to Distributors to partially offset the commission and the prepaid service fee paid at the time of purchase. For purchases at NAV where Distributors did not pay a prepaid commission, dealers may start to receive the 12b-1 fee at the time of purchase.  After approximately 10 years, Class C shares convert to Class A shares and dealers may then be eligible to receive the 12b-1 fee applicable to Class A.

Please keep this supplement with your prospectus for future reference.

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TL SA1 09/18

SUPPLEMENT DATED SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

TO THE STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

DATED JANUARY 1, 2018

OF

TEMPLETON FUNDS

Templeton Foreign Fund

Templeton World Fund

The Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”) is amended as follows:

I. The following replaces the first sentence under “Buying and Selling shares – Initial sales charges:”

The maximum initial sales charge is 5.50% for Class A.

II. The following replaces the second paragraph under “Buying and Selling shares – Initial sales charges – Financial intermediary compensation:”

Distributors may pay the following commissions to financial intermediaries who initiate and are responsible for purchases of Class A shares in the following amounts:

Amount of Investment	For Funds with an initial sales charge of 5.50% (%)	For Funds with an initial sales charge of 4.25% (%)	For Funds with an initial sales charge of 2.25% (%)
Under $50,000	5.00	4.00	2.00
$50,000 but under $100,000	4.00	4.00	2.00
$100,000 but under $250,000	3.00	3.00	1.75
$250,000 but under $500,000	2.25	2.25	1.25
$500,000 but under $1 million	1.75	1.00	1.00
$1 million but under $4 million	1.00	1.00	1.00
$4 million but under $10 million	1.00	1.00	1.00
$10 million but under $50 million	0.50	0.50	0.50
$50 million or more	0.25	0.25	0.25

Consistent with the provisions and limitations set forth in its Class A Rule 12b-1 distribution plan, the Fund may reimburse Distributors for the cost of these commission payments.

III. The following replaces the first paragraph under “Buying and Selling shares – Contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) - Class A & C:”

Contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) - Class A & C     If you invest any amount in Class C shares, $1 million or more in Class A shares of mutual funds with a maximum initial sales charge of 5.50% or $500,000 or more for mutual funds with a maximum initial sales charge of 4.25% or 2.25%, either as a lump sum or through our cumulative quantity discount or letter of intent programs, a CDSC may apply on any Class A shares you sell within 18 months and any Class C shares you sell within 12 months of purchase. The CDSC is 1% of the value of the shares sold or the net asset value at the time of purchase, whichever is less, for Class A shares of mutual funds with a maximum initial sales charge of 5.50% and for Class C shares.  The CDSC is 0.75% of the value of the shares sold or the net asset value at the time of purchase, whichever is less, for Class A shares of mutual funds with a maximum initial sales charge of 4.25% or 2.25%; however this CDSC will change to 1.00% on or after March 10, 2020.

Please keep this supplement with your SAI for future reference.

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Fund Summary

Templeton Foreign Fund-20 | Templeton Foreign Fund

Investment Goal

Long-term capital growth.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts in Class A if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Franklin Templeton funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional and under “Your Account” on page 34 in the Fund's Prospectus and under “Buying and Selling Shares” on page 59 of the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information. In addition, more information about sales charge discounts and waivers for purchases of shares through specific financial intermediaries is set forth in Appendix A - "Intermediary Sales Charge Discounts and Waivers" to the Fund's prospectus.

Please note that the tables and examples below do not reflect any transaction fees that may be charged by financial intermediaries, or commissions that a shareholder may be required to pay directly to its financial intermediary when buying or selling Class R6 or Advisor Class shares.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees {- Templeton Foreign Fund} - Templeton Foreign Fund-20 - Templeton Foreign Fund	Class A	[1]	Class C	[2]	Class R	Class R6	Advisor Class
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as percentage of offering price)	5.50%		none		none	none	none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as percentage of the lower of original purchase price or sale proceeds)	none		1.00%		none	none	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Annual Operating Expenses {- Templeton Foreign Fund} - Templeton Foreign Fund-20 - Templeton Foreign Fund		Class A	Class C	Class R	Class R6	Advisor Class
Management fees		0.69%	0.69%	0.69%	0.69%	0.69%
Distribution and service (12b-1) fees		0.25%	1.00%	0.50%	none	none
Other expenses	[1]	0.25%	0.25%	0.25%	0.05%	0.25%
Total annual Fund operating expenses	[1]	1.19%	1.94%	1.44%	0.74%	0.94%
Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement	[2]	(0.09%)	(0.09%)	(0.09%)	(0.09%)	(0.09%)
Total annual Fund operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement	[2]	1.10%	1.85%	1.35%	0.65%	0.85%

Example

This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of the period. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. The Example reflects adjustments made to the Fund's operating expenses due to the fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements by management for the 1 Year numbers only. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example {- Templeton Foreign Fund} - Templeton Foreign Fund-20 - Templeton Foreign Fund - USD ($)	Class A	Class C	Class R	Class R6	Advisor Class
1 year	$ 656	$ 288	$ 137	$ 66	$ 87
3 years	899	600	447	228	291
5 years	1,160	1,039	778	403	511
10 years	$ 1,906	$ 2,257	$ 1,716	$ 910	$ 1,146

If you do not sell your shares:

Expense Example, No Redemption {- Templeton Foreign Fund}	Templeton Foreign Fund-20 Templeton Foreign Fund Class C USD ($)
1 Year	$ 188
3 Years	600
5 Years	1,039
10 Years	$ 2,257

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual Fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 42.56% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in foreign securities. These securities are predominantly equity securities of companies located outside the U.S., including developing markets. The equity securities in which the Fund invests are predominantly common stock, and may include smaller and midsize companies. Although the investment manager will search for investments across a large number of regions, countries and sectors, from time to time, based on economic conditions, the Fund may have significant positions in particular regions, countries or sectors.

The Fund may, from time to time, seek to hedge (protect) against currency risks using certain derivative instruments including currency and cross currency forwards and currency futures contracts.

When choosing equity investments for the Fund, the investment manager applies a “bottom-up,” value-oriented, long-term approach, focusing on the market price of a company’s securities relative to the investment manager’s evaluation of the company’s long-term earnings, asset value and cash flow potential. The investment manager also considers a company’s price/earnings ratio, price/cash flow ratio, profit margins and liquidation value.

The investment manager may consider selling an equity security when it believes the security has become overvalued due to either its price appreciation or changes in the company's fundamentals, or when the investment manager believes another security is a more attractive investment opportunity.

Principal Risks

You could lose money by investing in the Fund. Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S. government.

Market

The market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise.

Stock prices tend to go up and down more dramatically than those of debt securities. A slower-growth or recessionary economic environment could have an adverse effect on the prices of the various stocks held by the Fund.

Foreign Securities

Investing in foreign securities typically involves more risks than investing in U.S. securities, and includes risks associated with: (i) internal and external political and economic developments – e.g., the political, economic and social policies and structures of some foreign countries may be less stable and more volatile than those in the U.S. or some foreign countries may be subject to trading restrictions or economic sanctions; (ii) trading practices – e.g., government supervision and regulation of foreign securities and currency markets, trading systems and brokers may be less than in the U.S.; (iii) availability of information – e.g., foreign issuers may not be subject to the same disclosure, accounting and financial reporting standards and practices as U.S. issuers; (iv) limited markets – e.g., the securities of certain foreign issuers may be less liquid (harder to sell) and more volatile; and (v) currency exchange rate fluctuations and policies. The risks of foreign investments may be greater in developing or emerging market countries.

Currency Management Strategies

Currency management strategies may substantially change the Fund’s exposure to currency exchange rates and could result in losses to the Fund if currencies do not perform as the investment manager expects. In addition, currency management strategies, to the extent that they reduce the Fund’s exposure to currency risks, may also reduce the Fund’s ability to benefit from favorable changes in currency exchange rates. Using currency management strategies for purposes other than hedging further increases the Fund’s exposure to foreign investment losses. Currency markets generally are not as regulated as securities markets. In addition, currency rates may fluctuate significantly over short periods of time, and can reduce returns.

Regional Focus

Because the Fund may invest at least a significant portion of its assets in companies in a specific region, including Europe, the Fund is subject to greater risks of adverse developments in that region and/or the surrounding regions than a fund that is more broadly diversified geographically. Political, social or economic disruptions in the region, even in countries in which the Fund is not invested, may adversely affect the value of investments held by the Fund. Current political uncertainty surrounding the European Union (EU) and its membership, including the 2016 referendum in which the United Kingdom voted to exit the EU, may increase market volatility. The financial instability of some countries in the EU, including Greece, Italy and Spain, together with the risk of that impacting other more stable countries may increase the economic risk of investing in companies in Europe.

Developing Market Countries

The Fund’s investments in securities of issuers in developing market countries are subject to all of the risks of foreign investing generally, and have additional heightened risks due to a lack of established legal, political, business and social frameworks to support securities markets, including: delays in settling portfolio securities transactions; currency and capital controls; greater sensitivity to interest rate changes; pervasiveness of corruption and crime; currency exchange rate volatility; and inflation, deflation or currency devaluation.

Value Style Investing

A value stock may not increase in price as anticipated by the investment manager if other investors fail to recognize the company's value and bid up the price, the markets favor faster-growing companies, or the factors that the investment manager believes will increase the price of the security do not occur or do not have the anticipated effect.

Liquidity

From time to time, the trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s liquidity needs or in response to a specific economic event and will also generally lower the value of a security or other investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be volatile.

Management

The Fund is subject to management risk because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's investment manager applies investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there can be no guarantee that these decisions will produce the desired results.

Focus

To the extent that the Fund focuses on particular countries, regions, industries, sectors or types of investment from time to time, the Fund may be subject to greater risks of adverse developments in such areas of focus than a fund that invests in a wider variety of countries, regions, industries, sectors or investments.

Smaller and Midsize Companies

Securities issued by smaller and midsize companies may be more volatile in price than those of larger companies, involve substantial risks and should be considered speculative. Such risks may include greater sensitivity to economic conditions, less certain growth prospects, lack of depth of management and funds for growth and development, and limited or less developed product lines and markets. In addition, smaller and midsize companies may be particularly affected by interest rate increases, as they may find it more difficult to borrow money to continue or expand operations, or may have difficulty in repaying any loans.

Derivative Instruments

The performance of derivative instruments (including currency derivatives) depends largely on the performance of an underlying currency, security, interest rate or index, and such derivatives often have risks similar to the underlying instrument, in addition to other risks. Derivatives involve costs and can create economic leverage in the Fund’s portfolio which may result in significant volatility and cause the Fund to participate in losses (as well as gains) in an amount that significantly exceeds the Fund’s initial investment. Certain derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the initial investment. Other risks include illiquidity, mispricing or improper valuation of the derivative, and imperfect correlation between the value of the derivative and the underlying instrument so that the Fund may not realize the intended benefits. Their successful use will usually depend on the investment manager’s ability to accurately forecast movements in the market relating to the underlying instrument. Should a market or markets, or prices of particular classes of investments move in an unexpected manner, especially in unusual or extreme market conditions, the Fund may not achieve the anticipated benefits of the transaction, and it may realize losses, which could be significant. If the investment manager is not successful in using such derivative instruments, the Fund’s performance may be worse than if the investment manager did not use such derivatives at all. When a derivative is used for hedging, the change in value of the derivative may also not correlate specifically with the currency, security, interest rate, index or other risk being hedged. Derivatives also may present the risk that the other party to the transaction will fail to perform. There is also the risk, especially under extreme market conditions, that a derivative, which usually would operate as a hedge, provides no hedging benefits at all.

Performance

The following bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows changes in the Fund's performance from year to year for Class A shares. The table shows how the Fund's average annual returns for 1 year, 5 years, 10 years or since inception, as applicable, compared with those of a broad measure of market performance. The Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. You can obtain updated performance information at franklintempleton.com or by calling (800) DIAL BEN/342-5236.

Sales charges are not reflected in the bar chart, and if those charges were included, returns would be less than those shown.

Class A Annual Total Returns

Best Quarter:	Q2'09	28.36%
Worst Quarter:	Q4'08	-24.25%
As of September 30, 2017, the Fund's year-to-date return was 14.02%.

Average Annual Total Returns
(figures reflect sales charges)

For the periods ended December 31, 2016

Average Annual Total Returns{- Templeton Foreign Fund} - Templeton Foreign Fund-20 - Templeton Foreign Fund	Past 1 year	Past 5 years	Past 10 years	Since Inception	[1]
Class A | Return Before Taxes	5.20%	5.63%	1.66%
Class A | After Taxes on Distributions	4.82%	4.98%	0.53%
Class A | After Taxes on Distributions and Sales	3.40%	4.56%	1.63%
Class C | Return Before Taxes	9.88%	6.07%	1.49%
Class R | Return Before Taxes	11.42%	6.61%	2.00%
Class R6 | Return Before Taxes	12.09%			3.49%
Advisor Class | Return Before Taxes	11.99%	7.13%	2.51%
MSCI All Country World ex-US Index (index reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	5.01%	5.48%	1.42%

The figures in the average annual total returns table above reflect the Class A maximum front-end sales charge of 5.75% that was in effect prior to September 10, 2018. Class A shares, however, currently are subject to a maximum front-end sales charge of 5.50% effective on September 10, 2018. If the maximum front-end sales charge of 5.50% was reflected, performance for Class A in the average annual total returns table would be higher.

The after-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. After-tax returns are shown only for Class A and after-tax returns for other classes will vary.

[1] There is a 1% contingent deferred sales charge that applies to investments of $1 million or more (see "Investments of $1 Million or More" under "Choosing a Share Class") and purchases by certain retirement plans without an initial sales charge on shares sold within 18 months of purchase.

[2] Effective October 5, 2018, Class C shares that have been held for 10 years or more will convert automatically into Class A shares later in the month of October 2018 and will be subject to Class A shares’ lower Rule 12b-1 fees. Thereafter, Class C shares of the Fund will convert automatically to Class A shares of the Fund on a monthly basis in the month of, or the month following, the 10-year anniversary of the Class C shares’ purchase date. Such conversions will be on the basis of the relative net asset values of the two classes, will not be subject to Class A shares’ sales charges and are not expected to be a taxable event for federal income tax purposes. Certain shares that are invested through retirement plans, omnibus accounts or in certain other instances may not automatically convert if the financial intermediary does not have the ability to track purchases to credit individual shareholders’ holding periods. (See “Your Account – Choosing a Shares Class – Sales Charges - Class C – Automatic Conversion of Class C Shares to Class A Shares After 10-Year Holding Period” for more information.)

[1] Other expenses of the Fund have been restated to exclude non-recurring prior period expenses. If such expenses were included in the table above, the amounts stated would have been greater. Consequently, the total annual Fund operating expenses differ from the ratio of expenses to average net assets shown in the Financial Highlights

[2] The fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement above has been updated to reflect that the investment manager has contractually agreed to waive or assume certain expenses so that total annual Fund operating expenses (excluding Rule 12b-1 fees, acquired fund fees and expenses and certain non-routine expenses) for each class of the Fund do not exceed 0.85% through December 31, 2019. Contractual fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement agreements may not be changed or terminated during the time period set forth above.

[1] Since inception May 1, 2013.

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Templeton Foreign Fund-20 | Templeton Foreign Fund

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Long-term capital growth.

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Fees and Expenses of the Fund

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts in Class A if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Franklin Templeton funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional and under “Your Account” on page 34 in the Fund's Prospectus and under “Buying and Selling Shares” on page 59 of the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information. In addition, more information about sales charge discounts and waivers for purchases of shares through specific financial intermediaries is set forth in Appendix A - "Intermediary Sales Charge Discounts and Waivers" to the Fund's prospectus.

Please note that the tables and examples below do not reflect any transaction fees that may be charged by financial intermediaries, or commissions that a shareholder may be required to pay directly to its financial intermediary when buying or selling Class R6 or Advisor Class shares.

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Portfolio Turnover

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The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual Fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 42.56% of the average value of its portfolio.

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You may qualify for sales charge discounts in Class A if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Franklin Templeton funds.

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This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of the period. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. The Example reflects adjustments made to the Fund's operating expenses due to the fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements by management for the 1 Year numbers only. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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If you do not sell your shares:

Strategy [Heading]

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Principal Investment Strategies

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Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in foreign securities. These securities are predominantly equity securities of companies located outside the U.S., including developing markets. The equity securities in which the Fund invests are predominantly common stock, and may include smaller and midsize companies. Although the investment manager will search for investments across a large number of regions, countries and sectors, from time to time, based on economic conditions, the Fund may have significant positions in particular regions, countries or sectors.

The Fund may, from time to time, seek to hedge (protect) against currency risks using certain derivative instruments including currency and cross currency forwards and currency futures contracts.

When choosing equity investments for the Fund, the investment manager applies a “bottom-up,” value-oriented, long-term approach, focusing on the market price of a company’s securities relative to the investment manager’s evaluation of the company’s long-term earnings, asset value and cash flow potential. The investment manager also considers a company’s price/earnings ratio, price/cash flow ratio, profit margins and liquidation value.

The investment manager may consider selling an equity security when it believes the security has become overvalued due to either its price appreciation or changes in the company's fundamentals, or when the investment manager believes another security is a more attractive investment opportunity.

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Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in foreign securities.

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Principal Risks

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You could lose money by investing in the Fund. Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S. government.

Market

The market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise.

Stock prices tend to go up and down more dramatically than those of debt securities. A slower-growth or recessionary economic environment could have an adverse effect on the prices of the various stocks held by the Fund.

Foreign Securities

Investing in foreign securities typically involves more risks than investing in U.S. securities, and includes risks associated with: (i) internal and external political and economic developments – e.g., the political, economic and social policies and structures of some foreign countries may be less stable and more volatile than those in the U.S. or some foreign countries may be subject to trading restrictions or economic sanctions; (ii) trading practices – e.g., government supervision and regulation of foreign securities and currency markets, trading systems and brokers may be less than in the U.S.; (iii) availability of information – e.g., foreign issuers may not be subject to the same disclosure, accounting and financial reporting standards and practices as U.S. issuers; (iv) limited markets – e.g., the securities of certain foreign issuers may be less liquid (harder to sell) and more volatile; and (v) currency exchange rate fluctuations and policies. The risks of foreign investments may be greater in developing or emerging market countries.

Currency Management Strategies

Currency management strategies may substantially change the Fund’s exposure to currency exchange rates and could result in losses to the Fund if currencies do not perform as the investment manager expects. In addition, currency management strategies, to the extent that they reduce the Fund’s exposure to currency risks, may also reduce the Fund’s ability to benefit from favorable changes in currency exchange rates. Using currency management strategies for purposes other than hedging further increases the Fund’s exposure to foreign investment losses. Currency markets generally are not as regulated as securities markets. In addition, currency rates may fluctuate significantly over short periods of time, and can reduce returns.

Regional Focus

Because the Fund may invest at least a significant portion of its assets in companies in a specific region, including Europe, the Fund is subject to greater risks of adverse developments in that region and/or the surrounding regions than a fund that is more broadly diversified geographically. Political, social or economic disruptions in the region, even in countries in which the Fund is not invested, may adversely affect the value of investments held by the Fund. Current political uncertainty surrounding the European Union (EU) and its membership, including the 2016 referendum in which the United Kingdom voted to exit the EU, may increase market volatility. The financial instability of some countries in the EU, including Greece, Italy and Spain, together with the risk of that impacting other more stable countries may increase the economic risk of investing in companies in Europe.

Developing Market Countries

The Fund’s investments in securities of issuers in developing market countries are subject to all of the risks of foreign investing generally, and have additional heightened risks due to a lack of established legal, political, business and social frameworks to support securities markets, including: delays in settling portfolio securities transactions; currency and capital controls; greater sensitivity to interest rate changes; pervasiveness of corruption and crime; currency exchange rate volatility; and inflation, deflation or currency devaluation.

Value Style Investing

A value stock may not increase in price as anticipated by the investment manager if other investors fail to recognize the company's value and bid up the price, the markets favor faster-growing companies, or the factors that the investment manager believes will increase the price of the security do not occur or do not have the anticipated effect.

Liquidity

From time to time, the trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s liquidity needs or in response to a specific economic event and will also generally lower the value of a security or other investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be volatile.

Management

The Fund is subject to management risk because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's investment manager applies investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there can be no guarantee that these decisions will produce the desired results.

Focus

To the extent that the Fund focuses on particular countries, regions, industries, sectors or types of investment from time to time, the Fund may be subject to greater risks of adverse developments in such areas of focus than a fund that invests in a wider variety of countries, regions, industries, sectors or investments.

Smaller and Midsize Companies

Securities issued by smaller and midsize companies may be more volatile in price than those of larger companies, involve substantial risks and should be considered speculative. Such risks may include greater sensitivity to economic conditions, less certain growth prospects, lack of depth of management and funds for growth and development, and limited or less developed product lines and markets. In addition, smaller and midsize companies may be particularly affected by interest rate increases, as they may find it more difficult to borrow money to continue or expand operations, or may have difficulty in repaying any loans.

Derivative Instruments

The performance of derivative instruments (including currency derivatives) depends largely on the performance of an underlying currency, security, interest rate or index, and such derivatives often have risks similar to the underlying instrument, in addition to other risks. Derivatives involve costs and can create economic leverage in the Fund’s portfolio which may result in significant volatility and cause the Fund to participate in losses (as well as gains) in an amount that significantly exceeds the Fund’s initial investment. Certain derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the initial investment. Other risks include illiquidity, mispricing or improper valuation of the derivative, and imperfect correlation between the value of the derivative and the underlying instrument so that the Fund may not realize the intended benefits. Their successful use will usually depend on the investment manager’s ability to accurately forecast movements in the market relating to the underlying instrument. Should a market or markets, or prices of particular classes of investments move in an unexpected manner, especially in unusual or extreme market conditions, the Fund may not achieve the anticipated benefits of the transaction, and it may realize losses, which could be significant. If the investment manager is not successful in using such derivative instruments, the Fund’s performance may be worse than if the investment manager did not use such derivatives at all. When a derivative is used for hedging, the change in value of the derivative may also not correlate specifically with the currency, security, interest rate, index or other risk being hedged. Derivatives also may present the risk that the other party to the transaction will fail to perform. There is also the risk, especially under extreme market conditions, that a derivative, which usually would operate as a hedge, provides no hedging benefits at all.

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Sales charges are not reflected in the bar chart, and if those charges were included, returns would be less than those shown.

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The following bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows changes in the Fund's performance from year to year for Class A shares. The table shows how the Fund's average annual returns for 1 year, 5 years, 10 years or since inception, as applicable, compared with those of a broad measure of market performance.

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(800) DIAL BEN/342-5236

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franklintempleton.com

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The Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.

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Class A Annual Total Returns

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Best Quarter:	Q2'09	28.36%
Worst Quarter:	Q4'08	-24.25%
As of September 30, 2017, the Fund's year-to-date return was 14.02%.

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Average Annual Total Returns
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For the periods ended December 31, 2016

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The figures in the average annual total returns table above reflect the Class A maximum front-end sales charge of 5.75% that was in effect prior to September 10, 2018. Class A shares, however, currently are subject to a maximum front-end sales charge of 5.50% effective on September 10, 2018. If the maximum front-end sales charge of 5.50% was reflected, performance for Class A in the average annual total returns table would be higher.

The after-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. After-tax returns are shown only for Class A and after-tax returns for other classes will vary.

Templeton Foreign Fund-20 | Templeton Foreign Fund | Class A

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Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as percentage of offering price)

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5.50%

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none

^[1]

Management fees

rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets

0.69%

Distribution and service (12b-1) fees

rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets

0.25%

Other expenses

rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets

0.25%

^[2]

Total annual Fund operating expenses

rr_ExpensesOverAssets

1.19%

^[2]

Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets

(0.09%)

^[3]

Total annual Fund operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

rr_NetExpensesOverAssets

1.10%

^[3]

1 year

rr_ExpenseExampleYear01

$ 656

3 years

rr_ExpenseExampleYear03

899

5 years

rr_ExpenseExampleYear05

1,160

10 years

rr_ExpenseExampleYear10

$ 1,906

2007

rr_AnnualReturn2007

17.24%

2008

rr_AnnualReturn2008

(46.09%)

2009

rr_AnnualReturn2009

49.73%

2010

rr_AnnualReturn2010

8.50%

2011

rr_AnnualReturn2011

(12.71%)

2012

rr_AnnualReturn2012

18.55%

2013

rr_AnnualReturn2013

27.17%

2014

rr_AnnualReturn2014

(10.80%)

2015

rr_AnnualReturn2015

(7.09%)

2016

rr_AnnualReturn2016

11.63%

Year to Date Return, Label

rr_YearToDateReturnLabel

As of September 30, 2017, the Fund's year-to-date return was 14.02%.

Highest Quarterly Return, Label

rr_HighestQuarterlyReturnLabel

Best Quarter:

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturnDate

Jun. 30, 2009

Highest Quarterly Return

rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturn

28.36%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

rr_LowestQuarterlyReturnLabel

Worst Quarter:

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturnDate

Dec. 31, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturn

(24.25%)

Templeton Foreign Fund-20 | Templeton Foreign Fund | Class C

Risk/Return:

rr_RiskReturnAbstract

Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as percentage of offering price)

rr_MaximumCumulativeSalesChargeOverOfferingPrice

none

^[4]

Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as percentage of the lower of original purchase price or sale proceeds)

rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOfferingPrice

1.00%

^[4]

Management fees

rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets

0.69%

Distribution and service (12b-1) fees

rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets

1.00%

Other expenses

rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets

0.25%

^[2]

Total annual Fund operating expenses

rr_ExpensesOverAssets

1.94%

^[2]

Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets

(0.09%)

^[3]

Total annual Fund operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

rr_NetExpensesOverAssets

1.85%

^[3]

1 year

rr_ExpenseExampleYear01

$ 288

3 years

rr_ExpenseExampleYear03

600

5 years

rr_ExpenseExampleYear05

1,039

10 years

rr_ExpenseExampleYear10

2,257

1 Year

rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear01

188

3 Years

rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear03

600

5 Years

rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear05

1,039

10 Years

rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear10

$ 2,257

Templeton Foreign Fund-20 | Templeton Foreign Fund | Class R

Risk/Return:

rr_RiskReturnAbstract

Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as percentage of offering price)

rr_MaximumCumulativeSalesChargeOverOfferingPrice

none

Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as percentage of the lower of original purchase price or sale proceeds)

rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOfferingPrice

none

Management fees

rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets

0.69%

Distribution and service (12b-1) fees

rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets

0.50%

Other expenses

rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets

0.25%

^[2]

Total annual Fund operating expenses

rr_ExpensesOverAssets

1.44%

^[2]

Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets

(0.09%)

^[3]

Total annual Fund operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

rr_NetExpensesOverAssets

1.35%

^[3]

1 year

rr_ExpenseExampleYear01

$ 137

3 years

rr_ExpenseExampleYear03

447

5 years

rr_ExpenseExampleYear05

778

10 years

rr_ExpenseExampleYear10

$ 1,716

Templeton Foreign Fund-20 | Templeton Foreign Fund | Class R6

Risk/Return:

rr_RiskReturnAbstract

Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as percentage of offering price)

rr_MaximumCumulativeSalesChargeOverOfferingPrice

none

Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as percentage of the lower of original purchase price or sale proceeds)

rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOfferingPrice

none

Management fees

rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets

0.69%

Distribution and service (12b-1) fees

rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets

none

Other expenses

rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets

0.05%

^[2]

Total annual Fund operating expenses

rr_ExpensesOverAssets

0.74%

^[2]

Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets

(0.09%)

^[3]

Total annual Fund operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

rr_NetExpensesOverAssets

0.65%

^[3]

1 year

rr_ExpenseExampleYear01

$ 66

3 years

rr_ExpenseExampleYear03

228

5 years

rr_ExpenseExampleYear05

403

10 years

rr_ExpenseExampleYear10

$ 910

Templeton Foreign Fund-20 | Templeton Foreign Fund | Advisor Class

Risk/Return:

rr_RiskReturnAbstract

Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as percentage of offering price)

rr_MaximumCumulativeSalesChargeOverOfferingPrice

none

Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as percentage of the lower of original purchase price or sale proceeds)

rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOfferingPrice

none

Management fees

rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets

0.69%

Distribution and service (12b-1) fees

rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets

none

Other expenses

rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets

0.25%

^[2]

Total annual Fund operating expenses

rr_ExpensesOverAssets

0.94%

^[2]

Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets

(0.09%)

^[3]

Total annual Fund operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

rr_NetExpensesOverAssets

0.85%

^[3]

1 year

rr_ExpenseExampleYear01

$ 87

3 years

rr_ExpenseExampleYear03

291

5 years

rr_ExpenseExampleYear05

511

10 years

rr_ExpenseExampleYear10

$ 1,146

Templeton Foreign Fund-20 | Templeton Foreign Fund | Return Before Taxes | Class A

Risk/Return:

rr_RiskReturnAbstract

Column

rr_AverageAnnualReturnColumnName

Templeton Foreign Fund

Label

rr_AverageAnnualReturnLabel

Return Before Taxes

Past 1 year

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01

5.20%

Past 5 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

5.63%

Past 10 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

1.66%

Templeton Foreign Fund-20 | Templeton Foreign Fund | Return Before Taxes | Class C

Risk/Return:

rr_RiskReturnAbstract

Past 1 year

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01

9.88%

Past 5 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

6.07%

Past 10 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

1.49%

Templeton Foreign Fund-20 | Templeton Foreign Fund | Return Before Taxes | Class R

Risk/Return:

rr_RiskReturnAbstract

Past 1 year

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01

11.42%

Past 5 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

6.61%

Past 10 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

2.00%

Templeton Foreign Fund-20 | Templeton Foreign Fund | Return Before Taxes | Class R6

Risk/Return:

rr_RiskReturnAbstract

Past 1 year

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01

12.09%

Past 10 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

Since Inception

rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception

3.49%

^[5]

Templeton Foreign Fund-20 | Templeton Foreign Fund | Return Before Taxes | Advisor Class

Risk/Return:

rr_RiskReturnAbstract

Past 1 year

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01

11.99%

Past 5 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

7.13%

Past 10 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

2.51%

Templeton Foreign Fund-20 | Templeton Foreign Fund | After Taxes on Distributions | Class A

Risk/Return:

rr_RiskReturnAbstract

Column

rr_AverageAnnualReturnColumnName

Templeton Foreign Fund

Label

rr_AverageAnnualReturnLabel

Return After Taxes on Distributions

Past 1 year

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01

4.82%

Past 5 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

4.98%

Past 10 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

0.53%

Templeton Foreign Fund-20 | Templeton Foreign Fund | After Taxes on Distributions and Sales | Class A

Risk/Return:

rr_RiskReturnAbstract

Column

rr_AverageAnnualReturnColumnName

Templeton Foreign Fund

Label

rr_AverageAnnualReturnLabel

Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Past 1 year

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01

3.40%

Past 5 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

4.56%

Past 10 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

1.63%

Templeton Foreign Fund-20 | Templeton Foreign Fund | MSCI All Country World ex-US Index (index reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

rr_RiskReturnAbstract

Past 1 year

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01

5.01%

Past 5 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

5.48%

Past 10 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

1.42%

[1] There is a 1% contingent deferred sales charge that applies to investments of $1 million or more (see "Investments of $1 Million or More" under "Choosing a Share Class") and purchases by certain retirement plans without an initial sales charge on shares sold within 18 months of purchase.

[2] Other expenses of the Fund have been restated to exclude non-recurring prior period expenses. If such expenses were included in the table above, the amounts stated would have been greater. Consequently, the total annual Fund operating expenses differ from the ratio of expenses to average net assets shown in the Financial Highlights

[3] The fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement above has been updated to reflect that the investment manager has contractually agreed to waive or assume certain expenses so that total annual Fund operating expenses (excluding Rule 12b-1 fees, acquired fund fees and expenses and certain non-routine expenses) for each class of the Fund do not exceed 0.85% through December 31, 2019. Contractual fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement agreements may not be changed or terminated during the time period set forth above.

[4] Effective October 5, 2018, Class C shares that have been held for 10 years or more will convert automatically into Class A shares later in the month of October 2018 and will be subject to Class A shares’ lower Rule 12b-1 fees. Thereafter, Class C shares of the Fund will convert automatically to Class A shares of the Fund on a monthly basis in the month of, or the month following, the 10-year anniversary of the Class C shares’ purchase date. Such conversions will be on the basis of the relative net asset values of the two classes, will not be subject to Class A shares’ sales charges and are not expected to be a taxable event for federal income tax purposes. Certain shares that are invested through retirement plans, omnibus accounts or in certain other instances may not automatically convert if the financial intermediary does not have the ability to track purchases to credit individual shareholders’ holding periods. (See “Your Account – Choosing a Shares Class – Sales Charges - Class C – Automatic Conversion of Class C Shares to Class A Shares After 10-Year Holding Period” for more information.)

[5] Since inception May 1, 2013.

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Fund Summary

Templeton World Fund-19 | Templeton World Fund

Investment Goal

Long-term capital growth.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts in Class A if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Franklin Templeton funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional and under “Your Account” on page 34 in the Fund's Prospectus and under “Buying and Selling Shares” on page 59 of the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information. In addition, more information about sales charge discounts and waivers for purchases of shares through specific financial intermediaries is set forth in Appendix A - "Intermediary Sales Charge Discounts and Waivers" to the Fund's prospectus.

Please note that the tables and examples below do not reflect any transaction fees that may be charged by financial intermediaries, or commissions that a shareholder may be required to pay directly to its financial intermediary when buying or selling Class R6 or Advisor Class shares.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees {- Templeton World Fund} - Templeton World Fund-19 - Templeton World Fund	Class A	[1]	Class C	[2]	Class R6	Advisor Class
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as percentage of offering price)	5.50%		none		none	none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as percentage of the lower of original purchase price or sale proceeds)	none		1.00%		none	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Annual Operating Expenses {- Templeton World Fund} - Templeton World Fund-19 - Templeton World Fund		Class A	Class C	Class R6	Advisor Class
Management fees		0.69%	0.69%	0.69%	0.69%
Distribution and service (12b-1) fees		0.25%	1.00%	none	none
Other expenses	[1]	0.11%	0.11%	0.05%	0.11%
Total annual Fund operating expenses	[1]	1.05%	1.80%	0.74%	0.80%

Example

This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of the period. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. The Example reflects adjustments made to the Fund's operating expenses due to the fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements by management for the 1 Year numbers only. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example {- Templeton World Fund} - Templeton World Fund-19 - Templeton World Fund - USD ($)	Class A	Class C	Class R6	Advisor Class
1 year	$ 651	$ 283	$ 76	$ 82
3 years	866	566	237	255
5 years	1,098	975	411	444
10 years	$ 1,762	$ 2,116	$ 918	$ 990

If you do not sell your shares:

Expense Example, No Redemption {- Templeton World Fund}	Templeton World Fund-19 Templeton World Fund Class C USD ($)
1 Year	$ 183
3 Years	566
5 Years	975
10 Years	$ 2,116

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual Fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 31.46% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests primarily in the equity securities of companies located anywhere in the world, including developing markets. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest in issuers located in at least three different countries (including the U.S.). The equity securities in which the Fund invests are primarily common stock, and may include smaller and midsize companies. Although the investment manager will search for investments across a large number of regions, countries and sectors, from time to time, based on economic conditions, the Fund may have significant positions in particular regions, countries or sectors.

The Fund intends to seek to hedge (protect) against currency risks by regularly using certain derivative instruments including currency and cross currency forwards and currency futures contracts to hedge all or substantially all of its foreign currency exposure to the U.S. dollar.

When choosing equity investments for the Fund, the investment manager applies a “bottom-up,” value-oriented, long-term approach, focusing on the market price of a company’s securities relative to the investment manager’s evaluation of the company’s long-term earnings, asset value and cash flow potential. The investment manager also considers a company’s price/earnings ratio, price/cash flow ratio, profit margins and liquidation value.

The investment manager may consider selling an equity security when it believes the security has become overvalued due to either its price appreciation or changes in the company's fundamentals, or when the investment manager believes another security is a more attractive investment opportunity.

Principal Risks

You could lose money by investing in the Fund. Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S. government.

Market

The market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise.

Stock prices tend to go up and down more dramatically than those of debt securities. A slower-growth or recessionary economic environment could have an adverse effect on the prices of the various stocks held by the Fund.

Foreign Securities

Investing in foreign securities typically involves more risks than investing in U.S. securities, and includes risks associated with: (i) internal and external political and economic developments – e.g., the political, economic and social policies and structures of some foreign countries may be less stable and more volatile than those in the U.S. or some foreign countries may be subject to trading restrictions or economic sanctions; (ii) trading practices – e.g., government supervision and regulation of foreign securities and currency markets, trading systems and brokers may be less than in the U.S.; (iii) availability of information – e.g., foreign issuers may not be subject to the same disclosure, accounting and financial reporting standards and practices as U.S. issuers; (iv) limited markets – e.g., the securities of certain foreign issuers may be less liquid (harder to sell) and more volatile; and (v) currency exchange rate fluctuations and policies. The risks of foreign investments may be greater in developing or emerging market countries.

Currency Management Strategies

Currency management strategies may substantially change the Fund’s exposure to currency exchange rates and could result in losses to the Fund if currencies do not perform as the investment manager expects. In addition, currency management strategies, to the extent that they reduce the Fund’s exposure to currency risks, may also reduce the Fund’s ability to benefit from favorable changes in currency exchange rates. Using currency management strategies for purposes other than hedging further increases the Fund’s exposure to foreign investment losses. Currency markets generally are not as regulated as securities markets. In addition, currency rates may fluctuate significantly over short periods of time, and can reduce returns.

Regional Focus

Because the Fund may invest at least a significant portion of its assets in companies in a specific region, including Europe, the Fund is subject to greater risks of adverse developments in that region and/or the surrounding regions than a fund that is more broadly diversified geographically. Political, social or economic disruptions in the region, even in countries in which the Fund is not invested, may adversely affect the value of investments held by the Fund. Current political uncertainty surrounding the European Union (EU) and its membership, including the 2016 referendum in which the United Kingdom voted to exit the EU, may increase market volatility. The financial instability of some countries in the EU, including Greece, Italy and Spain, together with the risk of that impacting other more stable countries may increase the economic risk of investing in companies in Europe.

Developing Market Countries

The Fund’s investments in securities of issuers in developing market countries are subject to all of the risks of foreign investing generally, and have additional heightened risks due to a lack of established legal, political, business and social frameworks to support securities markets, including: delays in settling portfolio securities transactions; currency and capital controls; greater sensitivity to interest rate changes; pervasiveness of corruption and crime; currency exchange rate volatility; and inflation, deflation or currency devaluation.

Derivative Instruments

The performance of derivative instruments (including currency derivatives) depends largely on the performance of an underlying currency, security, interest rate or index, and such derivatives often have risks similar to the underlying instrument, in addition to other risks. Derivatives involve costs and can create economic leverage in the Fund’s portfolio which may result in significant volatility and cause the Fund to participate in losses (as well as gains) in an amount that significantly exceeds the Fund’s initial investment. Certain derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the initial investment. Other risks include illiquidity, mispricing or improper valuation of the derivative, and imperfect correlation between the value of the derivative and the underlying instrument so that the Fund may not realize the intended benefits. Their successful use will usually depend on the investment manager’s ability to accurately forecast movements in the market relating to the underlying instrument. Should a market or markets, or prices of particular classes of investments move in an unexpected manner, especially in unusual or extreme market conditions, the Fund may not achieve the anticipated benefits of the transaction, and it may realize losses, which could be significant. If the investment manager is not successful in using such derivative instruments, the Fund’s performance may be worse than if the investment manager did not use such derivatives at all. When a derivative is used for hedging, the change in value of the derivative may also not correlate specifically with the currency, security, interest rate, index or other risk being hedged. Derivatives also may present the risk that the other party to the transaction will fail to perform. There is also the risk, especially under extreme market conditions, that a derivative, which usually would operate as a hedge, provides no hedging benefits at all.

Value Style Investing

A value stock may not increase in price as anticipated by the investment manager if other investors fail to recognize the company's value and bid up the price, the markets favor faster-growing companies, or the factors that the investment manager believes will increase the price of the security do not occur or do not have the anticipated effect.

Liquidity

From time to time, the trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s liquidity needs or in response to a specific economic event and will also generally lower the value of a security or other investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be volatile.

Management

The Fund is subject to management risk because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's investment manager applies investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there can be no guarantee that these decisions will produce the desired results.

Focus

To the extent that the Fund focuses on particular countries, regions, industries, sectors or types of investment from time to time, the Fund may be subject to greater risks of adverse developments in such areas of focus than a fund that invests in a wider variety of countries, regions, industries, sectors or investments.

Smaller and Midsize Companies

Securities issued by smaller and midsize companies may be more volatile in price than those of larger companies, involve substantial risks and should be considered speculative. Such risks may include greater sensitivity to economic conditions, less certain growth prospects, lack of depth of management and funds for growth and development, and limited or less developed product lines and markets. In addition, smaller and midsize companies may be particularly affected by interest rate increases, as they may find it more difficult to borrow money to continue or expand operations, or may have difficulty in repaying any loans.

Performance

The following bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows changes in the Fund's performance from year to year for Class A shares. The table shows how the Fund's average annual returns for 1 year, 5 years, 10 years or since inception, as applicable, compared with those of a broad measure of market performance. The Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. You can obtain updated performance information at franklintempleton.com or by calling (800) DIAL BEN/342-5236.

The secondary indices in the table below show how the Fund's performance compares to groups of securities that more closely align with the Fund’s portfolio or benchmark history.

Sales charges are not reflected in the bar chart, and if those charges were included, returns would be less than those shown.

Class A Annual Total Returns

Best Quarter:	Q3'09	18.55%
Worst Quarter:	Q4'08	-19.25%
As of September 30, 2017, the Fund's year-to-date return was 9.70%.

Average Annual Total Returns
(figures reflect sales charges)

For the periods ended December 31, 2016

Average Annual Total Returns{- Templeton World Fund} - Templeton World Fund-19 - Templeton World Fund		Past 1 year	Past 5 years	Past 10 years	Since Inception	[1]
Class A | Return Before Taxes		6.01%	8.38%	2.88%
Class A | After Taxes on Distributions		4.29%	6.94%	1.93%
Class A | After Taxes on Distributions and Sales		4.44%	6.65%	2.39%
Class C | Return Before Taxes		10.67%	8.85%	2.72%
Class R6 | Return Before Taxes		12.92%			5.84%
Advisor Class | Return Before Taxes		12.79%	9.94%	3.74%
MSCI AC World (USD Hedged) Index (index reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)		9.77%	12.21%	4.83%
Linked MSCI ACWI Hedged/World (index reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[2]	10.81%	11.58%	4.67%
MSCI All Country World Index (index reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)		8.49%	9.96%	4.12%

No one index is representative of the Fund's portfolio.

The figures in the average annual total returns table above reflect the Class A maximum front-end sales charge of 5.75% that was in effect prior to September 10, 2018. Class A shares, however, currently are subject to a maximum front-end sales charge of 5.50% effective on September 10, 2018. If the maximum front-end sales charge of 5.50% was reflected, performance for Class A in the average annual total returns table would be higher.

The after-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. After-tax returns are shown only for Class A and after-tax returns for other classes will vary.

[1] There is a 1% contingent deferred sales charge that applies to investments of $1 million or more (see "Investments of $1 Million or More" under "Choosing a Share Class") and purchases by certain retirement plans without an initial sales charge on shares sold within 18 months of purchase.

[2] Effective October 5, 2018, Class C shares that have been held for 10 years or more will convert automatically into Class A shares later in the month of October 2018 and will be subject to Class A shares’ lower Rule 12b-1 fees. Thereafter, Class C shares of the Fund will convert automatically to Class A shares of the Fund on a monthly basis in the month of, or the month following, the 10-year anniversary of the Class C shares’ purchase date. Such conversions will be on the basis of the relative net asset values of the two classes, will not be subject to Class A shares’ sales charges and are not expected to be a taxable event for federal income tax purposes. Certain shares that are invested through retirement plans, omnibus accounts or in certain other instances may not automatically convert if the financial intermediary does not have the ability to track purchases to credit individual shareholders’ holding periods. (See “Your Account – Choosing a Shares Class – Sales Charges - Class C – Automatic Conversion of Class C Shares to Class A Shares After 10-Year Holding Period” for more information.)

[1] Other expenses of the Fund have been restated to exclude non-recurring prior period expenses. If such expenses were included in the table above, the amounts stated would have been greater. Consequently, the total annual Fund operating expenses differ from the ratio of expenses to average net assets shown in the Financial Highlights

[1] Since inception May 1, 2013.

[2] The Linked MSCI ACWI Hedged/World Index consists of the MSCI World Index through June 29, 2016 and the MSCI ACWI (USD Hedged) Index thereafter.

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Templeton World Fund-19 | Templeton World Fund

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Long-term capital growth.

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts in Class A if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Franklin Templeton funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional and under “Your Account” on page 34 in the Fund's Prospectus and under “Buying and Selling Shares” on page 59 of the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information. In addition, more information about sales charge discounts and waivers for purchases of shares through specific financial intermediaries is set forth in Appendix A - "Intermediary Sales Charge Discounts and Waivers" to the Fund's prospectus.

Please note that the tables and examples below do not reflect any transaction fees that may be charged by financial intermediaries, or commissions that a shareholder may be required to pay directly to its financial intermediary when buying or selling Class R6 or Advisor Class shares.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text]

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses

(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]

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The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual Fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 31.46% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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31.46%

Expense Breakpoint Discounts [Text]

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You may qualify for sales charge discounts in Class A if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Franklin Templeton funds.

Expense Breakpoint, Minimum Investment Required [Amount]

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$ 50,000

Expense Example [Heading]

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Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of the period. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. The Example reflects adjustments made to the Fund's operating expenses due to the fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements by management for the 1 Year numbers only. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example, No Redemption, By Year, Caption [Text]

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If you do not sell your shares:

Strategy [Heading]

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Principal Investment Strategies

Strategy Narrative [Text Block]

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Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests primarily in the equity securities of companies located anywhere in the world, including developing markets. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest in issuers located in at least three different countries (including the U.S.). The equity securities in which the Fund invests are primarily common stock, and may include smaller and midsize companies. Although the investment manager will search for investments across a large number of regions, countries and sectors, from time to time, based on economic conditions, the Fund may have significant positions in particular regions, countries or sectors.

The Fund intends to seek to hedge (protect) against currency risks by regularly using certain derivative instruments including currency and cross currency forwards and currency futures contracts to hedge all or substantially all of its foreign currency exposure to the U.S. dollar.

When choosing equity investments for the Fund, the investment manager applies a “bottom-up,” value-oriented, long-term approach, focusing on the market price of a company’s securities relative to the investment manager’s evaluation of the company’s long-term earnings, asset value and cash flow potential. The investment manager also considers a company’s price/earnings ratio, price/cash flow ratio, profit margins and liquidation value.

The investment manager may consider selling an equity security when it believes the security has become overvalued due to either its price appreciation or changes in the company's fundamentals, or when the investment manager believes another security is a more attractive investment opportunity.

Strategy Portfolio Concentration [Text]

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Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests primarily in the equity securities of companies located anywhere in the world, including developing markets.

Risk [Heading]

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Principal Risks

Risk Narrative [Text Block]

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You could lose money by investing in the Fund. Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S. government.

Market

The market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise.

Stock prices tend to go up and down more dramatically than those of debt securities. A slower-growth or recessionary economic environment could have an adverse effect on the prices of the various stocks held by the Fund.

Foreign Securities

Investing in foreign securities typically involves more risks than investing in U.S. securities, and includes risks associated with: (i) internal and external political and economic developments – e.g., the political, economic and social policies and structures of some foreign countries may be less stable and more volatile than those in the U.S. or some foreign countries may be subject to trading restrictions or economic sanctions; (ii) trading practices – e.g., government supervision and regulation of foreign securities and currency markets, trading systems and brokers may be less than in the U.S.; (iii) availability of information – e.g., foreign issuers may not be subject to the same disclosure, accounting and financial reporting standards and practices as U.S. issuers; (iv) limited markets – e.g., the securities of certain foreign issuers may be less liquid (harder to sell) and more volatile; and (v) currency exchange rate fluctuations and policies. The risks of foreign investments may be greater in developing or emerging market countries.

Currency Management Strategies

Currency management strategies may substantially change the Fund’s exposure to currency exchange rates and could result in losses to the Fund if currencies do not perform as the investment manager expects. In addition, currency management strategies, to the extent that they reduce the Fund’s exposure to currency risks, may also reduce the Fund’s ability to benefit from favorable changes in currency exchange rates. Using currency management strategies for purposes other than hedging further increases the Fund’s exposure to foreign investment losses. Currency markets generally are not as regulated as securities markets. In addition, currency rates may fluctuate significantly over short periods of time, and can reduce returns.

Regional Focus

Because the Fund may invest at least a significant portion of its assets in companies in a specific region, including Europe, the Fund is subject to greater risks of adverse developments in that region and/or the surrounding regions than a fund that is more broadly diversified geographically. Political, social or economic disruptions in the region, even in countries in which the Fund is not invested, may adversely affect the value of investments held by the Fund. Current political uncertainty surrounding the European Union (EU) and its membership, including the 2016 referendum in which the United Kingdom voted to exit the EU, may increase market volatility. The financial instability of some countries in the EU, including Greece, Italy and Spain, together with the risk of that impacting other more stable countries may increase the economic risk of investing in companies in Europe.

Developing Market Countries

The Fund’s investments in securities of issuers in developing market countries are subject to all of the risks of foreign investing generally, and have additional heightened risks due to a lack of established legal, political, business and social frameworks to support securities markets, including: delays in settling portfolio securities transactions; currency and capital controls; greater sensitivity to interest rate changes; pervasiveness of corruption and crime; currency exchange rate volatility; and inflation, deflation or currency devaluation.

Derivative Instruments

The performance of derivative instruments (including currency derivatives) depends largely on the performance of an underlying currency, security, interest rate or index, and such derivatives often have risks similar to the underlying instrument, in addition to other risks. Derivatives involve costs and can create economic leverage in the Fund’s portfolio which may result in significant volatility and cause the Fund to participate in losses (as well as gains) in an amount that significantly exceeds the Fund’s initial investment. Certain derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the initial investment. Other risks include illiquidity, mispricing or improper valuation of the derivative, and imperfect correlation between the value of the derivative and the underlying instrument so that the Fund may not realize the intended benefits. Their successful use will usually depend on the investment manager’s ability to accurately forecast movements in the market relating to the underlying instrument. Should a market or markets, or prices of particular classes of investments move in an unexpected manner, especially in unusual or extreme market conditions, the Fund may not achieve the anticipated benefits of the transaction, and it may realize losses, which could be significant. If the investment manager is not successful in using such derivative instruments, the Fund’s performance may be worse than if the investment manager did not use such derivatives at all. When a derivative is used for hedging, the change in value of the derivative may also not correlate specifically with the currency, security, interest rate, index or other risk being hedged. Derivatives also may present the risk that the other party to the transaction will fail to perform. There is also the risk, especially under extreme market conditions, that a derivative, which usually would operate as a hedge, provides no hedging benefits at all.

Value Style Investing

A value stock may not increase in price as anticipated by the investment manager if other investors fail to recognize the company's value and bid up the price, the markets favor faster-growing companies, or the factors that the investment manager believes will increase the price of the security do not occur or do not have the anticipated effect.

Liquidity

From time to time, the trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s liquidity needs or in response to a specific economic event and will also generally lower the value of a security or other investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be volatile.

Management

The Fund is subject to management risk because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's investment manager applies investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there can be no guarantee that these decisions will produce the desired results.

Focus

To the extent that the Fund focuses on particular countries, regions, industries, sectors or types of investment from time to time, the Fund may be subject to greater risks of adverse developments in such areas of focus than a fund that invests in a wider variety of countries, regions, industries, sectors or investments.

Smaller and Midsize Companies

Securities issued by smaller and midsize companies may be more volatile in price than those of larger companies, involve substantial risks and should be considered speculative. Such risks may include greater sensitivity to economic conditions, less certain growth prospects, lack of depth of management and funds for growth and development, and limited or less developed product lines and markets. In addition, smaller and midsize companies may be particularly affected by interest rate increases, as they may find it more difficult to borrow money to continue or expand operations, or may have difficulty in repaying any loans.

Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading]

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Performance

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The following bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows changes in the Fund's performance from year to year for Class A shares. The table shows how the Fund's average annual returns for 1 year, 5 years, 10 years or since inception, as applicable, compared with those of a broad measure of market performance. The Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. You can obtain updated performance information at franklintempleton.com or by calling (800) DIAL BEN/342-5236.

The secondary indices in the table below show how the Fund's performance compares to groups of securities that more closely align with the Fund’s portfolio or benchmark history.

Sales charges are not reflected in the bar chart, and if those charges were included, returns would be less than those shown.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The following bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows changes in the Fund's performance from year to year for Class A shares. The table shows how the Fund's average annual returns for 1 year, 5 years, 10 years or since inception, as applicable, compared with those of a broad measure of market performance.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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(800) DIAL BEN/342-5236

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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franklintempleton.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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The Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.

Bar Chart [Heading]

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Class A Annual Total Returns

Bar Chart Does Not Reflect Sales Loads [Text]

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Sales charges are not reflected in the bar chart, and if those charges were included, returns would be less than those shown.

Bar Chart Closing [Text Block]

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Best Quarter:	Q3'09	18.55%
Worst Quarter:	Q4'08	-19.25%
As of September 30, 2017, the Fund's year-to-date return was 9.70%.

Performance Table Heading

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Average Annual Total Returns
(figures reflect sales charges)

For the periods ended December 31, 2016

Performance Table Closing [Text Block]

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No one index is representative of the Fund's portfolio.

The figures in the average annual total returns table above reflect the Class A maximum front-end sales charge of 5.75% that was in effect prior to September 10, 2018. Class A shares, however, currently are subject to a maximum front-end sales charge of 5.50% effective on September 10, 2018. If the maximum front-end sales charge of 5.50% was reflected, performance for Class A in the average annual total returns table would be higher.

The after-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. After-tax returns are shown only for Class A and after-tax returns for other classes will vary.

Templeton World Fund-19 | Templeton World Fund | Class A

Risk/Return:

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Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as percentage of offering price)

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5.50%

^[1]

Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as percentage of the lower of original purchase price or sale proceeds)

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none

^[1]

Management fees

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0.69%

Distribution and service (12b-1) fees

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0.25%

Other expenses

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0.11%

^[2]

Total annual Fund operating expenses

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1.05%

^[2]

1 year

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$ 651

3 years

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866

5 years

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1,098

10 years

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$ 1,762

2007

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8.50%

2008

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(39.52%)

2009

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32.61%

2010

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7.99%

2011

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(5.49%)

2012

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19.40%

2013

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29.89%

2014

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(3.16%)

2015

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(6.09%)

2016

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12.50%

Year to Date Return, Label

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As of September 30, 2017, the Fund's year-to-date return was 9.70%.

Highest Quarterly Return, Label

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Best Quarter:

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2009

Highest Quarterly Return

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18.55%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

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Worst Quarter:

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Dec. 31, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(19.25%)

Templeton World Fund-19 | Templeton World Fund | Class C

Risk/Return:

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Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as percentage of offering price)

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none

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Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as percentage of the lower of original purchase price or sale proceeds)

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1.00%

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Management fees

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0.69%

Distribution and service (12b-1) fees

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1.00%

Other expenses

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0.11%

^[2]

Total annual Fund operating expenses

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1.80%

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1 year

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$ 283

3 years

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566

5 years

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975

10 years

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2,116

1 Year

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183

3 Years

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566

5 Years

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975

10 Years

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$ 2,116

Templeton World Fund-19 | Templeton World Fund | Class R6

Risk/Return:

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Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as percentage of offering price)

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none

Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as percentage of the lower of original purchase price or sale proceeds)

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none

Management fees

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0.69%

Distribution and service (12b-1) fees

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none

Other expenses

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0.05%

^[2]

Total annual Fund operating expenses

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0.74%

^[2]

1 year

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$ 76

3 years

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237

5 years

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411

10 years

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$ 918

Templeton World Fund-19 | Templeton World Fund | Advisor Class

Risk/Return:

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Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as percentage of offering price)

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none

Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as percentage of the lower of original purchase price or sale proceeds)

rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOfferingPrice

none

Management fees

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0.69%

Distribution and service (12b-1) fees

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none

Other expenses

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0.11%

^[2]

Total annual Fund operating expenses

rr_ExpensesOverAssets

0.80%

^[2]

1 year

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$ 82

3 years

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255

5 years

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444

10 years

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$ 990

Templeton World Fund-19 | Templeton World Fund | Return Before Taxes | Class A

Risk/Return:

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Column

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Templeton World Fund

Label

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Return Before Taxes

Past 1 year

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6.01%

Past 5 years

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8.38%

Past 10 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

2.88%

Templeton World Fund-19 | Templeton World Fund | Return Before Taxes | Class C

Risk/Return:

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Past 1 year

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01

10.67%

Past 5 years

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8.85%

Past 10 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

2.72%

Templeton World Fund-19 | Templeton World Fund | Return Before Taxes | Class R6

Risk/Return:

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Past 1 year

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12.92%

Past 10 years

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Since Inception

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5.84%

^[4]

Templeton World Fund-19 | Templeton World Fund | Return Before Taxes | Advisor Class

Risk/Return:

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Past 1 year

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01

12.79%

Past 5 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

9.94%

Past 10 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

3.74%

Templeton World Fund-19 | Templeton World Fund | After Taxes on Distributions | Class A

Risk/Return:

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Column

rr_AverageAnnualReturnColumnName

Templeton World Fund

Label

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Return After Taxes on Distributions

Past 1 year

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4.29%

Past 5 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

6.94%

Past 10 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

1.93%

Templeton World Fund-19 | Templeton World Fund | After Taxes on Distributions and Sales | Class A

Risk/Return:

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Column

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Templeton World Fund

Label

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Past 1 year

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4.44%

Past 5 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

6.65%

Past 10 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

2.39%

Templeton World Fund-19 | Templeton World Fund | MSCI AC World (USD Hedged) Index (index reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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Past 1 year

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01

9.77%

Past 5 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

12.21%

Past 10 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

4.83%

Templeton World Fund-19 | Templeton World Fund | Linked MSCI ACWI Hedged/World (index reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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Past 1 year

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01

10.81%

^[5]

Past 5 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

11.58%

^[5]

Past 10 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

4.67%

^[5]

Templeton World Fund-19 | Templeton World Fund | MSCI All Country World Index (index reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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Past 1 year

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8.49%

Past 5 years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

9.96%

Past 10 years

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4.12%

[1] There is a 1% contingent deferred sales charge that applies to investments of $1 million or more (see "Investments of $1 Million or More" under "Choosing a Share Class") and purchases by certain retirement plans without an initial sales charge on shares sold within 18 months of purchase.

[2] Other expenses of the Fund have been restated to exclude non-recurring prior period expenses. If such expenses were included in the table above, the amounts stated would have been greater. Consequently, the total annual Fund operating expenses differ from the ratio of expenses to average net assets shown in the Financial Highlights

[3] Effective October 5, 2018, Class C shares that have been held for 10 years or more will convert automatically into Class A shares later in the month of October 2018 and will be subject to Class A shares’ lower Rule 12b-1 fees. Thereafter, Class C shares of the Fund will convert automatically to Class A shares of the Fund on a monthly basis in the month of, or the month following, the 10-year anniversary of the Class C shares’ purchase date. Such conversions will be on the basis of the relative net asset values of the two classes, will not be subject to Class A shares’ sales charges and are not expected to be a taxable event for federal income tax purposes. Certain shares that are invested through retirement plans, omnibus accounts or in certain other instances may not automatically convert if the financial intermediary does not have the ability to track purchases to credit individual shareholders’ holding periods. (See “Your Account – Choosing a Shares Class – Sales Charges - Class C – Automatic Conversion of Class C Shares to Class A Shares After 10-Year Holding Period” for more information.)

[4] Since inception May 1, 2013.

[5] The Linked MSCI ACWI Hedged/World Index consists of the MSCI World Index through June 29, 2016 and the MSCI ACWI (USD Hedged) Index thereafter.

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