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Investment Leadership Awards finalists named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
... State Street Global Advisors Australia - SSGA Australian Equities Index Trust Australian Equities - Income Focused Legg Mason Asset Management - Legg Mason Martin Currie Eq Inc Fund Legg Mason Asset Management - Legg Mason Martin Currie Real Income Fund ...

MAX finalists named, voting open

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
... included BlackRock's national iShares specialist James Waterworth who was named distribution executive of the year and Legg Mason head of marketing Felicity Nicholson who took home the Executive of the Year - Marketing award. Voting in the 2021 awards ...

Former Franklin Templeton retail head finds new role

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
... Sydney office. Damianakis was most recently head of retail at Franklin Templeton, departing at the end of 2020 as the Legg Mason acquisition went through. Prior to joining Franklin Templeton, he had an almost eight-year career at AMP Capital where he ...

BetaShares targets HNW market with new role

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2021
... BetaShares' activities in the private bank, family office and high net worth investor space. Pattison joins BetaShares from Legg Mason (now Franklin Templeton) where he was director of sales and oversaw the high net worth channel. Prior to that he also ...

T. Rowe Price hires ETF consultant

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... to include actively managed ETFs. But it doesn't currently offer ETFs in Australia, unlike its peers Fidelity, Legg Mason (now owned by Franklin Templeton), BlackRock and Vanguard. Locally, T. Rowe's $4.9 billion global equities fund is among ...

Sydney boutique hires former Franklin PM

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... said. Franklin Resources (the parent company for Franklin Templeton) in February 2020 entered an agreement to acquire Legg Mason for $6.7 billion. The acquisition was completed in August 2020, with local team changing by November 2020.

RARE Infrastructure rebrands

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... enabling institutional investors to access an extensive suite of US and global equity strategies. ClearBridge was part of Legg Mason. The latter was acquired by Franklin Templeton this year.

Franklin Templeton shuffles distribution team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
Following its acquisition of Legg Mason, Franklin Templeton Australia has refreshed its senior distribution leadership line-up. Felicity Walsh's role has been expanded as head of sales, she will now lead both the institutional and retail sales teams. ...

AMP Capital bids farewell to active ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2020
... be right and there is strong investor interest." BetaShare's other partnership as an active ETF issuer is with Legg Mason. It has been more successful than the AMP Capital one, with four Legg Mason funds gathering about $227 million in combined assets ...

Morningstar upgrades four, downgrades 10

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... Morningstar from silver to bronze in its annual fixed-interest review, including Franklin Templeton's Multisector Bond, Legg Mason Brandywine Global Opportunistic Fixed Income, Macquarie Income Opportunities, Schroders' Fixed Income Fund - Wholesale ...