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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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