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Franklin Templeton folds Martin Currie into affiliates

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
Franklin Templeton announced it will fold Martin Currie, the US$17.9 billion fund manager, into its other brands, ClearBridge Investments and Franklin Equity Group. Martin Currie's Australia, UK, and global emerging markets investment and sustainability ...

Martin Currie adds to active ETF stable

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
... pre-tax income yield above the S&P/ASX 200 Index's yield and to grow this income above the rate of inflation. Franklin Templeton Australia, which is the parent company of Martin Currie, acts as the responsible entity for the fund. R3AL predominately ...

Analyst Moves: Franklin Templeton, JANA, Bain, MLC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
Franklin Templeton has confirmed that Francyne Mu will step down from her role as portfolio manager and research analyst within the equity group. The asset manager said it is not looking to replace the role - that the team is well-resourced globally. ...

AMP defies super fund herd with Bitcoin bet

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2024
... exchange-traded funds by leading international investment managers - BlackRock, Fidelity, Bitwise, Ark Invest, Invesco, Franklin Templeton, Valkyrie, VanEck, and WiseTree - which have pulled in US$55.6 billion in flows since inception. Australia's ...

Geopolitical tensions create investor opportunity: Franklin Templeton

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024
... geopolitical tensions around the world has made defense a critical focus for investors, according to a new paper from Franklin Templeton. These geopolitical pressures, comparable in impact to climate change, are now immediate, direct, and global in reach ...

CFS awards equity, infrastructure mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
... and the digitalisation transformation that now includes the AI revolution." ClearBridge's parent company Franklin Templeton has five other strategies on CFS FirstChoice. Meanwhile, CFS awarded the second mandate to the $5.4 billion Platypus Asset ...

CFS unveils fund manager, fee changes to FirstChoice

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2024
... 31: Macquarie (50%), Wellington (19%), Loomis Sayles (10%), Colchester (11.5%), and Morgan Stanley (9.5%). Franklin Templeton and H20, which previously had a 12.5% and 9.5% allocation respectively, lost their mandates. Meanwhile, FirstChoice Wholesale ...

Franklin Templeton boosts sales team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2024
Franklin Templeton has added Cooper Investors' head of intermediary distribution Rebecca Morgan to its sales team. Felicity Walsh, managing director of Franklin Templeton Australia and NZ, confirmed that Morgan has joined the global asset manager ...

End of the road for three Franklin Templeton funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2024
Franklin Templeton has terminated two funds and is in the process of shuttering another as the strategies failed to scale assets under management (AUM). The funds are Martin Currie Diversified Income Fund, Martin Currie Tactical Allocation Fund, and ...

Australia a 'regional private wealth hotspot': Preqin

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024
... greater interest among private wealth investors for alternatives," the report said. Indicative of this embrace, Franklin Templeton launched its first alternative investments fund for Australian retail investors in August 2023. The report said as a result ...