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    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
      ‘Star’ fund managers jump into ETF space

      Investment houses are unleashing their ‘brightest and best’ to capitalise on rising demand for active ETF strategies

      Dan Ivascyn, group chief investment officer of Pimco
    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      Mergers & Acquisitions
      Can Franklin buy its way to survival in the asset management thunderdome?

      We’re going to find out!

    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      Franklin Templeton to buy Putnam Investments for more than $1bn

      Acquisitive California asset manager strikes deal that will expand business in alternatives and retirement plans

      Jenny Johnson, president and chief executive of Franklin Templeton
    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      Lex
      Franklin Resources: active manager needs to prove its worth Premium content

      Firm’s push into alternative asset management has fostered some excitement — and it needs the help

      Signage outside the headquarters of Franklin Resources., parent company of Franklin Templeton, in San Mateo, California
    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      FT Asset Management
      Asset Management: Stockpickers hope to profit after a decade of pain

      Plus, Blackstone’s real estate woes, China bets send base metals soaring and a sublime Sleeping Beauty

      Jenny Johnson speaks at an event
    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      The Big Read
      Franklin Templeton: an old-school stockpicker tries to reinvent itself

      The fourth member of the Johnson family to run the group is pushing quickly into new asset classes and technology

      The Franklin Templeton logo
    • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
      Franklin Templeton aims to launch active Ucits ETFs in Asia

      Asset manager hopes to list in Hong Kong and Singapore in first instance

      View of Hong Kong’s financial district
    • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
      Sovereign bonds
      Misadventures in bondland

      Active investing is HARD guys

    • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
      ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
      Franklin Templeton portfolio-shielding ETF to become transparent

      ClearBridge Focus Value ESG ETF will start to disclose all of its holdings in December

      A trader looks at a screen at the New York Stock Exchange
    • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
      Exchange traded funds
      Franklin revamps multifactor ETFs to focus on dividends

      The moves, which include index switches for four funds, will be accompanied by huge reductions in fees

      A montage of a $100 banknote and a graph
    • Tuesday, 31 May, 2022
      Franklin Templeton agrees deal for alternative credit specialist Alcentra

      US investment group buys European business in latest example of mainstream asset managers seeking to diversify

      Franklin Templeton headquarters in San Mateo, California
    • Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
      ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
      Franklin Templeton launches Taiwan ETF for European investors

      About 60% of the fund’s assets are in Taiwanese technology stocks

      Staff at work in the United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) factory in Tainan, southern Taiwan
    • Friday, 25 March, 2022
      News in-depthFund management
      Fund houses buy up ‘alts’ specialists to move beyond equities and bonds

      Asset managers add private strategies to grab share of market worth $15tn and growing

      Montage of asset managers logos over NY skyline
    • Friday, 10 December, 2021
      Legal services
      Blockchain-powered breakthrough on mutual fund

      A new, tech-based breed of fund promises potential big savings for clients

      The Securities and Exchange Commission approved the OnChain fund after long negotiations — Andrew Kelly/Reuters
    • Monday, 1 November, 2021
      Franklin Templeton buys alternatives firm Lexington for $1.75bn

      Purchase comes amid flurry of dealmaking as asset managers seek new avenues of growth

      Franklin Templeton chief executive Jenny Johnson is using the mutual fund firm’s balance sheet to strike acquisitions and expand into alternative assets.
    • Tuesday, 21 September, 2021
      ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
      Franklin kept initial filing for gold ETF secret

      The fund had been in the works since at least the spring even though no public records existed

      Gold bullion bars
    • Friday, 29 January, 2021
      Fund management
      Franklin Templeton named worst-selling fund manager of 2020

      Active managers dominate latest Morningstar rankings of firms with the most net outflows last year

      Franklin Templeton has suffered more than half a decade of heavy redemptions, despite attempts to turn around its fortunes
    • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
      Fund management
      Hasenstab suffers largest outflow among bond managers in 2020

      Emerging markets specialist’s run of underperformance continued last year as assets shrank

    • Friday, 6 November, 2020
      Due Diligence
      Asset management: an activist’s playground

      Nelson Peltz and his hedge fund are pulling the levers of M&A in the sector — and collecting big returns

    • Saturday, 24 October, 2020
      Franklin Templeton suffers heavy outflows ahead of Legg Mason deal

      Investors pull money from funds before US group’s landmark takeover

    • Tuesday, 9 June, 2020
      Indian court orders Franklin Templeton to suspend liquidation vote

      Fund manager angered investors in April over plan to freeze and close six funds managing $3bn

      Franklin Templeton’s headquarters in California. A high court in the Indian state of Gujarat has ruled that the vote cannot go ahead until an audit of the six funds is made public
    • Friday, 8 May, 2020
      Indian business & finance
      Franklin Templeton tussles with India regulator after freezing funds

      US asset manager apologises following comments by company’s president over debt rules

      Franklin Templeton publicly apologised to the Indian regulator on Friday, weeks after it froze $3bn in funds
    • Monday, 27 April, 2020
      Indian business & finance
      India’s central bank offers mutual funds $6.6bn liquidity line

      Authorities aiming to head off turmoil after Franklin Templeton fund freeze

      The RBI said it would monitor financial markets and review the Rs500bn liquidity amount if necessary
    • Friday, 24 April, 2020
      Indian business & finance
      Franklin Templeton winds up $3bn of India funds after market turmoil

      US investment group halts withdrawals in move that could rock asset management industry

    • Monday, 24 February, 2020
      Robin Wigglesworth
      Asset managers seek refuge in each other’s arms

      Increasing scale in a tighter sector is tempting, but few past deals stand out as clear success stories

      Jennifer Johnson, President and COO at Franklin Templeton - PR photo provided by: dorine.johnson@franklintempleton.co.uk
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